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NPP wants IPAC views considered in EC appointments

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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    corrupt NDC + NPP

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  • julu 10 years ago

    The election is over, the petition is over. Anytime I come on Ghanaweb, I have to see something about NPP. I am sick and tired of Ghanaweb treating these loosers as a newsworthy group.

    Lets have some balance here. Jesus. N ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    There is no smoke without fire , many times our chiefs for 30 pieces of silver have betrayed the interests of the people . they not only take money but also actively promote the most toxic of ideas against the welfare of the ...
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  • SAMANPA 10 years ago

    NPP please fix your party and include all ghanaians and you may win 2016. Even if you appoint sir John as Chairman of EC and you win only two regions you will lose. It is not only Akans who vot in ghana elections. Many tribes ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

    In the first paragraph, the pronoun WHO should have been WHOM because it is the object of the preposition ON. Oh! nPP, learn grammar as well as how to petition an election.

  • Ekuma 10 years ago

    The truth is bitter , but u have spoken it. ' A word to the WISE is in the ANUS of the PINK SHITS and not the FACE'. Nonsense .

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  • NANA 10 years ago

    Both NDC and NPP are corrupt parties.

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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    It will not change anything. Kuffour won twice under the same EC!

  • Nana addo 10 years ago

    true and npp should know.

  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    He will lose miserably if he runs again in 2016. The guy has no presidential qualities about him! 2 same regions out of 10!

  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    There is no way Akuffo Addo can win any additional region beside the two predominatly twi speaking Akans, the Eastern and Ashanti regions. Come 2016, if he runs, he will not do as well as he did in the Ashanti region and he w ...
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  • shark 10 years ago

    you are very stupid to come out like dat..you sound like he goat...kwasiiia

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    There is no need.

  • BOY KUMASI 10 years ago

    Reforms without vigilance is still the path to the supreme court.

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Consultation is good but can the Council of State veto the President's nomination? I think the Parliamentary Appointment Committee should be the body to vet the nomination before it goes to the Council of State. Another probl ...
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  • LoK 10 years ago

    NPP is so hellbent on impugning all our national institutions. So "institutionalising IPAC" ideas will make decisions about the Electoral Commission "neutral"?

    Only NPP influenced institutions are neutral? Bullshit.

    A ...
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  • Mmoatia_Komfour 10 years ago

    His inability to get that govt bungalow he 'purchased' for next to nothing back!

  • william 10 years ago

    Without questioning the sense in your suggestion why not tell Ghana and the world why you are only now seeing that 'light. After all you were in power for eight years. During that period was it deemed necessary to do that?Exp ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Jake,your days are numbered,you will
    soon retire with Nana.

  • JOAN 10 years ago

    NANA CAN BURN THE SEA BUT FOR THE OIL MONEY, HE WILL NEVER TASTE IT. THEY SAY SHORT PEOPLE CAN WORRY,BUT IS HE THE MOST SHORTEST IN GHANA?

  • Kwesi Daquah 10 years ago

    Nonesence!IPAC is Npp.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Nana Akufo Addo is currious about the
    Oil money to become the President but
    his doors are closed.

  • Nana addo 10 years ago

    you thank God for no bad or evil things going on,thats cool.why could you not mount a platform and advice same to your people or supporters that no person should do any bad thing before the sc verdict??????

  • kk 10 years ago

    foolish people why so desperate for power?nonsence NPP. Forkin JAKE Kwaasia

  • Kosoko 10 years ago

    Maybe they want Kuffour to become the EC chairman. Sick!

  • Dallas 10 years ago

    If the menacing machination of the npp is not checked they would one day usurp the powers of the president. They're so power-drunk and full of themselves that they don't trust anybody apart from themselves.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A man gets on a bus, and ends up sitting next to a very attractive nun. Enamored with her, he asks if he can have sex with her. Naturally, she says no, and gets off the bus. The man goes to the bus driver and asks him if he k ...
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  • Asempaye 10 years ago

    Even if the supreme God himself was to be EC boss no party would not accept him. Only a person that can be influenced by the party is good enough I am sure that all the workers at EC sympathize with one particular party. May ...
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  • Kwesi Daquah 10 years ago

    JAKE IS KOTIBOTO,If you have sence you can advice your daughter in Nyaniba,Bungalow thief.

  • Kwesi Daquah 10 years ago

    The elementry leaver want to give Ghana advice,nonesense!

  • Darling boy 10 years ago

    ec is simply too corrupt to be trusted
    that,s why j think npp is right this time around

  • Nana Yaw III 10 years ago

    Let's assume that the President (John Dramani Mahama) constitutes this body to choose the next Chair of the EC. Will the NPP be satisfied with the new chairperson? Or will they only be satisfied if the appointee comes from ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    ghana needs new electoral commision and kofi annan can be the next ec chairman,ghanaians must beg him to do the job.Anyway there is no justice in ghana ,untruthfulness is king of the day,almost all the people are corrupt.

  • mugu1 10 years ago

    what do these people want this time,they are too agressive,
    prez.mahama MUST NOT BE GIVING IN,Prez.Kwame Nkrumah had went through this kind of evil bendictor plots against ghanaians.this time the ancestors has choosing his H ...
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  • Kwesi Arthur. 10 years ago

    You jake otanka, only npp party you can chair, even the woman ekui will not give you that important position in her party. Ghanaians will not give you power again so that you come and share the police vehicle among yourself.

  • Nelly 10 years ago

    Ko Jake! Why now? Why not say this when you declared the winner of the presidential elections in 2004 when Afari Gyan had to accept your declaration and follow suit? Is it now that the seeds you sowed are germinating and firi ...
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  • ASHANTIS ARE GHANAS CANCER 10 years ago

    BCOS OF STUPID GA MEN LIKE JAKE ASHANTIS TALK TO GAS ANY HOW.THIS IS A MAN WHO WAS BOLD TO BUY A GOVERNMENT PROPERTY EVEN WENT TO COURT TO DEFEND HIS SELFISH ATTITUDE ANS APPITITE 4 STATE PROPERTIES.

  • Hard Reply 10 years ago

    That stupid man is not a Ga because he cannot speak Ga. He just has that name and I believe DNA will not make him a Ga, he is too stupid, the mother will know the father.

  • ASHANTIS ARE GHANAS CANCER 10 years ago

    THE AVERAGE HEIGHT OF ALL THE BLACK ASHANTI GUYS IN THE BACKGROUND SAYS IT ALL, THE ASHANTIS ARE STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT AND FACIALLY CHALLENGED

  • ASHANTIS ARE GHANAS CANCER 10 years ago

    ASANTEHENE KNOWS GHANAS HAS NO FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF HIS TRIBESMEN GOING BY THE HISTORY OF K4 8 YRS

  • Bro 10 years ago

    What makes you think this way? It means that you have the intent to position your own person for the post should you win the last elections. Mr Jake, you can't have that like the Chief Justice; NDC will always choose the El ...
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  • Nana Okyere Mframa. 10 years ago

    NPP,you reposed trust in the S.C judges and just after the judgement, the trust is gone.So which institution will NPP trust again?

  • kwam 10 years ago

    I do not understand why NPP thinks if there is war in Ghana they will win, they have no choice but to accept the verdict. The same EC declared them wins in 2000, and they were OK, anytime the lost elections they blame the EC.

  • OPUKU, KUMASI 10 years ago

    NPP IS NOT THE ONLY PARTY OR THE ONLY PEOPLE IN GHANA. WHY NPP ARE SOOOOOO HUNGRY FOR POWER? YOU WANT TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA, BUT GHANIAN PEOPLE DONT WANT YOUR SERVICE, IS THIS THE REASON WHY NPP IS CREATING SO MUCH PRO ...
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  • COS 90 10 years ago

    Jake, there you go again, woaso nntse as3m. Nana Akufo Ado said 'all -die- be die' and lose 2012 election intoto. Today too you( Jake) also said bloodshed. coming 2016, NPP will lose 100%. Mark my words.

  • SUMBRUNGU 10 years ago

    Going by NPP's logic, it would stand to reason that in the exercise of its advisory functions in respect of certain sensitive appointments such as the appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff and other service commanders of ...
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  • Kasa 10 years ago

    In the first place, I really want to know the problem with NPP.When constitution was written, you said no Rawlings has gone for rife raffles. You see too much sense has made you foolish? now you have copied JJ Rawlings the sa ...
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  • Monar B 10 years ago

    Swine...they go talk true.Now u fear Afari-Gyan??.

  • KABIYESI 10 years ago

    Desperation, desperation, desperation! NPP is only good for opposition.

  • Eddie. 10 years ago

    The NPP are too desperate for power, haaaaaba.

  • Genuine Observer 10 years ago

    All genuine Ghanaians, who can look beyond NPP and NDC party politics and can think straight must consider this proposal for the sake of mother Ghana. Please, remember that no one single party, be it NDC or NPP, within a dem ...
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  • Jake 10 years ago

    It is time for the NPP to get over their defeat and stop blaming everybody or everything else.
    Afari Gyan did nothing to make them lose. So this posturing is worthless.
    Prior to the elections they were throwing monkey w ...
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  • christian brotherhood 10 years ago

    To settle the dust down,the government must allow NPP,the election noise makers to choose thier own electoral commissioner and its deputy for 2016 elections and i believe with that, NPP cannot win elections with or without ...
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  • scarecrow 10 years ago

    Jake is still dreaming 2016 i pity him too much why is he so deeply into this NPP lost,why?Is politics his daily bread?'Haba'

  • Abba 10 years ago

    THE SPITIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

  • KWASHIE ADJAH 10 years ago

    THE CHAIRMANSHIPOF THE EC SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR AN EXPERIENCED JUDGE OF THE APPEAL COURT, NEVER SHOULD A NON LAWYER. A POLITICAL SCIENTIST, LIKE AFARI GYAN SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN THE POST OF ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN, BECAU ...
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  • Abba 10 years ago

    EVEN THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF NDC CRIMINALS.

  • Anthony 10 years ago

    NPP MUST BE SICK AND UNDER GREAT MIRAGE. THEIR BOGUS AND DISMISSED ELECTION PETITION , MUST TEACH THEM TO BE MORE SENSIBLE , HONEST AND SOBER. NO SANE BEING WOULD SUGGEST ANY MAJOR CHANGES IN APPOINTMENT , COMPOSITION AND WOR ...
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  • Joseph Baffoe 10 years ago

    Stop these nonsense talk and writing when NPP won those years why didn't you write these. things ,but. now that your Party lost that. you are writing these stupid letters for Ghanaians to. sympathise with you or. what ...
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  • Mmoatia_Komfour 10 years ago

    This guy cares about going to heaven?
    He and his gang that covet just about everthing on the face of planet earth - state bungalows, lands automobiles,oil revenues and of course power to lord over others,will never be satisf ...
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  • tiger shark 10 years ago

    Not the ec but the UP-PP-NPP gang Needs reforms.NPPshould rather Focus on how to win voters.Critizising the ec etc will not help win any elections.

  • KWAKU MANU 10 years ago

    JUST SEE HOW THEY ACT SO DESPARATELY. DO ALL POSSIBLE TO BLAME AND SOIL REPUTATION OF EC AS CAUSE OF THEIR DEFEAT.
    THEY THE FORMER EXECUTIVES WERE NOT COMPETENT IN NOT DELIVERING POWER. NOW THEY HAVE ALSO FAILED AND MUST AT ...
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  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    True

  • king 10 years ago

    no matter what is done,corrupt person is corrupt

  • ayo 10 years ago

    jake you make sense but always talking of blood shed. if such a thing should happen, your blood will be shed and no one else.
    You talk and think all there is in this world is politics.
    please we just finished an election.
    ...
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  • Agye Da Bi 10 years ago

    The whole idea that the Chairman of EC alone can change our electoral system is spurious. If the appointee is from the North, problem; from Volta Region, problem, from Akan land, problem. Morever, if the staff at EC are parti ...
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  • Season. 10 years ago

    Why is Ghana bringing out all this ?

  • OKOE 10 years ago

    SOME OF THESE NPP OFFICIALS SURPRISE ME. THE SC VERDICT IS OVER. THE LOSER HAS SAID HE IS NOT GOING TO APPEAL. SO WHY ON EARTH ARE THEY NOT ORGANIZING TO WIN THE NEXT ELECTIONS. WHY SPEND PRECIOUS TIME WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT ...
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  • Hard Reply 10 years ago

    You have very good advise but if they will just listen. I think you can see how vision they will be if they are even in power. They don't know anything. They have problem with every institution in Ghana because they didn't ge ...
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  • OKOE 10 years ago

    THE EVENTS OF THE LAST FEW MONTHS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE PAIN OF LOSING AN ELECTION AND HOW CHILDISH AND IMMATURE POLITICAL LEADERS CAN BECOME WHEN THEY DONT IMMEDIATELY SEE THE WAY FORWARD. I THINK OBETSEBI IS TALKING TOO MUC ...
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  • Law Speaks 10 years ago

    Jwhen you lose is it afarigyan who voted for ndc to win?

  • prince mahama kelly 10 years ago

    jake don`t ve any certificate to prove his qualification as someone who learn to achieve educational ambition, but yet his consider to lead a political party, what should we consider NPP as?

  • John Anamse 10 years ago

    When it was the turn of the NPP to pack the supreme court and ensure that Tsatsu was jailed, the NPP did not think about think about a fair choice of judges.

    When time was up to choose the Chief Justice, NPP never thought ...
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  • Mary 10 years ago

    What are you trying to say? Do you think because JJ appointed Afari Djan so he is biased against the NPP? When kuffour won twice on the NPP ticket, did you complain? You are all mad and stupid! Had Tsatsu Tsikata said this th ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    These NPP morons do not know how to conduct themselves as statesmen. No wonder their communications directorate is staffed by infantile minds. When they won 2 elections they found nothing wrong with the EC. They declared them ...
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  • Dickson Afrifa 10 years ago

    What are this. npp wont sir John to be EC bosse? Live us alon Ghana dosn't belong to npp it belong to Ghanaians. Let's think of Ghana fowerd.

  • Bissue 10 years ago

    I am beginning to wonder if this party will ever move forward. Concentrating on unimportant issues will not win the NPP power. You see there was a fixation with biometric voting before 2012, to the neglect of other important ...
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  • Dr. B.F. 10 years ago

    Jake, what do you know about the E.C. Not National Chairman, but National Chairman of NPP. Your MOTHER,are you a Ghanaian ????????? BIG FOOOOOOOL

  • Okantakantwrite 10 years ago

    Do we have a lady Speaker of Parliament or its me. And what's 'I am, yours faithfully'. Never heard of such idiocy.

  • RASTA- LONDON 10 years ago

    Everything about this man questionable he should remove the log on his eyes before he can help remove the spec in the EC....I have by my authority declare this man a

    " a hypocrite,recker,absolute dishonest and evil"

  • Namer 10 years ago

    Let jake or akuffo addo be the ec boss NPp will still lose every election in this country because of the way they behave period.

  • Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo 10 years ago

    NPP knows reforms and consultation only when it is in opposition.

  • Emmanuel 10 years ago

    What's wrong with these people? They think Ghana is theirs alone so they decide what happens in Ghana? They can go to HELL with their threats!

  • KOBBY 10 years ago

    THE 1992 CONSTITUTION NEEDS OVERHAULING

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

    What does the 1992 constitution say about EC appointment? Enough of the popinjays!

  • Sam, Bern 10 years ago

    Now you want the Pope to be the EC chairman, even that you will still lose.

  • Ekuma 10 years ago

    Jake I can decipher from ur rhetoric that u suspect Afari Gyan of bias.. U are just being foolish . Afari Gyan's bias made President Kufuor two time President.

    Jake, u ate not being fair to our electoral system acclai ...
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  • Agbee 10 years ago

    Ghana is not for political parties, hence they should not be doing everything possible to change the rule of the game.

  • corrupt mahama juju killed mills,ei 10 years ago

    GOD BLESS GHANA 4 NANA,SAVING US FROM MAHAMA JUJU BLOOD,MAHAMA PLANS DID NOT WORK,NO MORE BLOOD FOR MAHANI,THAT IS WHY MAHAMA BROUGHT CHINIS AND IRANIAS TO GET MORE BLOOD AS HE KILLED MILLS,AND MOST NDC ARE VERY HAPPY,WHY HMM ...
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  • corrupt mahama juju killed mills,ei 10 years ago

    ONLY NDC FOOLS WILL SAY NAGATIVE THINGS ABOUT THIS,EVIL THIEVES,SHAME,OH NDC GOD WILL PUNISHED THEM ALL PERIOD,GHANIANS NEED GOOD GOVT,THAN NDC MAHAMA AKONFEM GOVET

  • ko 10 years ago

    idiotic thoughts. What locus does the NPP have in influencing the choice of the successor of the EC. If you want to then you should have presented a more acceptable person as Presidential Candidate and not proposed SHS as th ...
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  • Mensah 10 years ago

    you aasholes are all brain dead.

  • Czar 10 years ago

    Nana Akomeah for 2016

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  • BBC 10 years ago

    cc: H.E. The President of Ghana H.E. The Vice-President of Ghana Rt. Hon. Speaker Her Ladyship, The Chief Justice H.E. President J.J. Rawlings H.E. President J.A.Kufuor Chairpersons IPAC member parties. Chairman and Deputy Ch ...
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  • Teye Kwesi, Cape Coast 10 years ago

    Knowledge is not in a mind or set of group call Party. Let the lay down rules work.

  • CEEKAY 10 years ago

    jAKE IS TOO FUSTRATED. HE WANTS TO BE SEEN TO BE WORKING.YOU ONLY SEE PROBLEMS WITH THE SYSTEM WHEN IN OPPOSITION

  • Amenyo,Tema 10 years ago

    Obetsebi-Lamptey Otanka SON OF A BOMB THROWER what do you and your people want from Ghanaians why? I don't blame you rather the NADMO BOSS who gave you the REFUGEE status in Ghana,fed you and your family with great support. B ...
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  • NID 10 years ago

    jake again,dont create problem for us again ooooooooooooo

  • razak seini 10 years ago

    even if jake is made the chairman of ec no body can steal.jake the pre-independent level of politicking is gone for good.your tacks are old fashion. Ghana is no more the"crachi, cracchi" type of politics

  • wofa nyantakyi 10 years ago

    from my youthful days up to now, I don't understand why the Almighty God should allow the up/npp people be in our country and disturbing every body up to now? my hate for these evil and demonic people started when I became a ...
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  • Joan 10 years ago

    Jake, focus on your party's business. The Supreme Court verdict is not even one month old yet.

    And without being in government can't politicians develop Ghana?

    I am getting tired of all these calls instead of us talkin ...
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  • mma 10 years ago

    ....these are the very people who boycotted parliament, boycotted vetting of ministerial and appointments to other high offices, stole 9 months Mahama's administration due to the petition and now you want what? Believe me! th ...
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