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Election Petition Is Good

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  • Evans 10 years ago

    These ministers are thieves especially when u present a proposal to them, they ignore yours and go to bring inn other people for your idea to get their own 10% share by implementing a fake of what u presented to them. God sav ...
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  • moyo 10 years ago

    There is no justification for the election petition. Those suggestions that it will enrich our democracy is nonsense. How can you say Parliamentary elections are good but the presidential elections are not whilst it was condu ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    I am sure some mafias are making good bread out of this stupid petition.You cannot lose parliamentary élections with such a huge margin and win the presidential one.This is practically impossible in Ghana because we go the t ...
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  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

    Only hard-core idiots hate free and fair elections ; otherwise why should we spend over $200 million of our scarce financial resources and donor support on elections ?

    And which sane and discerning Ghanaian, who has follow ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    The stupid petition has many errors and irregularities than the elections, so what about that?

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    pepeni like all evil men in history is saying its God who gave him victory , hitler , stalin and all the intrinsically evil men including satan also claimed the same. pepeni has put only his own muslim pepefuo in charge of al ...
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  • Governor, Montreal 10 years ago

    Scarce financial resources?? You might be dreaming. Are you blind or deaf when the NDC thieves steal the nation's resources? What do you say about that?

  • BAM 10 years ago

    This librarian needs more books for his library. He is bored as hell.

  • 4 Year Old 10 years ago

    The Election Petition is very good for a great number of reasons among which, I believe, is the standard for future elections. In times past, Ghanaians just accept whatever is offered; whether good or bad, fair or unfair. But ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Tell me the good things Nana Addo has proven about his petition.If you want good electoral practice you must go through reforms but not put useless allegation forward that has no basis whatsoever.Please tell Nana Addo to with ...
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  • KWARNING,NJ 10 years ago

    BOY KOFI, YOU ARE SO BIAS AND SO STUPID THAT YOU CANNOT SEE THE GOOD OF THE PETITION BROUGHT TO COURT. IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO BE BORN DURING KWAME NKRUMAH'S TIME, I WOULD THINK EITHER YOU WERE A YOUNG PIONEER OR YOU WERE BR ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Prof, I agree with you that the election petition is not a waste of time. The greatest benefit will be improved electoral management of future elections in Ghana and for that matter, the petition is good for Ghana's democracy ...
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  • KT 10 years ago

    Great response except agreeing with him that the election petition is not waste of time. The reason why most people including myself feel like this election petition is waste of time is because of what they told us before goi ...
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  • CYBERGHANA 10 years ago

    STOP USING THE EMPTY FILLER - "NEEDLESS TO SAY".
    IT IS QUITE BORING, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH.
    HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU USE THAT IN THE CLASSROOM WHEN TEACHING.
    NEEDLESS TO SAY SOME OF US FOUND MS HANSON'S PAPER WELL WRITTEN AND ...
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  • Fo. Kwaku - Tanyingbe 10 years ago

    THIS "NEEDLESS TO SAY" APPEARS IN ALMOST ALL HIS USELESS, TRIBALISTIC AND DIVISIVE ARTICLES HIS WRITES. A PROF INDEED.
    "SUSUBRIBI" THIS YOUR CRACK COCAIN MAN WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GHANA.

  • ....... 10 years ago

    HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

    In addition to the 3 judges (who were not proven to have committed any crimes in a court of law) the following also were, innocently killed and today the innocent (from all tribes) blood ; still speaks ...
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  • Nana Kwame 10 years ago

    You are so brilliant and should be home to built Ghana.The fortunes of the NPP will Sky-rocket with your financial input and physical presence and you are as tough as Ken Agyapong too.

  • Joe 10 years ago

    Needless to say, the petitioners have not sought to prove any collusion between any EC staff and the NDC. Are you presenting your own petition?

  • Kwadwo Tawia 10 years ago

    okoampa, you are really mad.

  • BLACK MAN 10 years ago

    Good from wofa kwame as usual.

  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Only mafias are making money out of the petition and will like to see it going on forever.I don't see any positive thing in torturing Ghanaians with such a stupid petition.For the past 6 months Nana Addo has not been able to ...
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  • Senam Tamakloe 10 years ago

    Where in your article is the import of the title?This confuse Okoampa is just being verbose and meaningless. This piece is just a rejoinder and nothing less than that. The caption is completely out of place.Is that how you te ...
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  • Aponkye Kpegah 10 years ago

    Senam Tamakloe or whatever you call yourself, you're very stupid, a useless member of your family and a motherfucker of a semi-illiterate idiot, no wonder you're an AYIGBE RAT, a well-known tribalistic whore! Read history an ...
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  • Facebook lawyer 10 years ago

    You are too known! You insult like someone who grew up with animals. People with low mental capacity, low self-esteem and weak communication skills insult. Well brought up people advance their point of view without insults. I ...
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  • Osei Bonsu 10 years ago

    I can vouch safe that this is Cardinal Sarpong on the loose once again.I think he suffers from the tourette syndrome a compulsive desire to preempt everything with insult.Lack of proper training and poor manners is the result ...
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  • Aponkye Kpegah 10 years ago

    This Election Petition is good, in fact the best and most beautiful "electoral battle" that has ever been "fought" in Ghana's courts, especially one solemnly seeking to annul Presidential Election results truly marred by mass ...
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  • AUDI Q5 10 years ago

    Kwame, don't take NPP's petition to heart. It's comically fruitless petition. It will be wishful thinking on the part of NPP hoping the Supreme Court will make Nana Akufo-Addo's Presidential dream come true.

    What is almos ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Nana Addo wants to recover his money spent in 2008 and 2012 general élections.As a matter of fact NPP has nothing to gain in this ideological battle;the petition has even more mistakes and irregularities than the petition it ...
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  • KWARNING,NJ 10 years ago

    DREAM ON, BOY KOFI OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS.

  • Yeabr3 _Mo 10 years ago

    Instructor in English,who dabbles in the politics of his home country,to consistently make arguments on the basis of ideology,when it is firmly established that the 'age of ideology' is over! I suppose that is why this indivi ...
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  • williams 10 years ago

    what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? JESUS CHRIST the KING of all kings and LORD of all lords is coming back again for his child ...
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  • Better Ghana Agenda Part 1,2,n 3 10 years ago

    So this whole Petition was a planned thing. You people will never succeed. Even not Antoa Nyama. Allah is the most High and He knows what is hidden and what is said aloud. We are watching closely.

  • Appletus 10 years ago

    Oh no, Prof. You must not come across as if English and Knowledge are your bonafied property, especially that you are in the academia. When you do so, readers are left with a conclusion: pomposity,pride.
    Ms Hanson is entitle ...
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  • Blessings 10 years ago

    Yes, every 4 years Ghanaians will be forced to be glued to their TVs, radios, gadgets and dragged through endless weeks of election drama being played out at the SC, halting economic activity in the name of almighty democracy ...
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  • john, UAE 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are becoming too insolence which goes to fulfill the prophecy in the bible that a time will come children will be insolence on their parents, you are one of the bible prophecy. Amen

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    At the end of the day, this good-for-nothing petition would thrown into the dustbin of history.

  • SUMBRUNGU 10 years ago

    All well-meaning Ghanaians must in the interest of peace support the proposal by the international my proposal for Nana Addo to be installed co-chief of Kyebi where he'll share the spoils with his cousin Amoatia Ofori Panin a ...
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  • maame 10 years ago

    a little bit of si
    plocity in ypur language will make your subjective article sensible. it sounds foolish. the reaction outweighs the simple article by anna. it is like you only want to show off you are good at english co ...
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