Greenstreet can push 2016 polls into runoff – Ephson

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OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AFEDE FILLING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS ABROAD< ASIEDU NKETIA SPREADING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER BRONG AHAFO AND BUYING MANSION IN CALGARY CANADA, HANNA BISSIW ,OYI LITHUR ANITA DISOSO SPREADING MONEY AS IF GHANA HAS NO PROBLEM
PHILTY McNASTY 8 years ago

Indigenes of Central Region fascinate me. I am not trying to insult anybody here, but I don't get it why is it that most Fantis have Eurocentric first and last names?

As far as I can remember, with the exception of Arkaa a ...
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Indigenes of Central Region fascinate me. I am not trying to insult anybody here, but I don't get it why is it that most Fantis have Eurocentric first and last names?

As far as I can remember, with the exception of Arkaa almost every Fanti in the political or entertainment limelight has this questionable Eurocentric surnames to go with their first names.

Examples abound: Joe deGraft Johnson in the 2nd republic. Evans Atta Mills, Amissah-Arthur, Kwesi Ratt, sorry, Pratt, Ben Ephson, Arthur Kennedy, Ivor Greenstreet, Paintstil, Crentsil etc. For some of them, but for their middle names, you can't differentiate them from Americo-Liberians or Sierra Leoneans.

Some Fantis go as far as to "brofolize" or anglicize their last names like Essel for Asare, Koomson for Kumi, Killson for Koomson, Mends for Mensah, Laastson for Kaakyire, Folson for Ofori, etc. These things belie inferiority complex or colonial brainwash. Every educated Fanti man craves to be a white Englishman. Their craziness is on the same emotional scale as skin bleaching and wigs wearing African women. Are you jokers? Get real people, there is no respect for any people who let go of their own culture and cling to somebody's culture.

On another note I think it is the same nonsense with our northern Muslim brothers and sisters. They too have lost their names before contact with the Islamists. The phenomenon has become so entrenched we have taken their names as Ghanaian when in fact they are Arabo-Islamic names. Where are your identities people? Emancipate yourselves from this mental slavery. Stop being fools and drifting race or tribe. You are so insecure and unsure of yourselves you will jump on any stupid religion and ideology that washes ashore. Why?
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

THE FIRST FANTE OBRONI WHO WENT TO LONDON FROM THE GOLD COAST LET THEM DOWN.
Born in Cape Coast and named Kweku, he was said to be the son of Birempong Cudjo. In 1754, Kweku was one of three Fante children taken to England f ...
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THE FIRST FANTE OBRONI WHO WENT TO LONDON FROM THE GOLD COAST LET THEM DOWN.
Born in Cape Coast and named Kweku, he was said to be the son of Birempong Cudjo. In 1754, Kweku was one of three Fante children taken to England for education by a missionary from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

Of the three children, Thomas Cobbers died in 1758, while William Cudjoe suffered a mental breakdown and died in 1766. Kweku fared better. The two brothers were baptised at St Mary's Church, Islington on 7 January 1759, which they had attended for four years.[1] Kweku took the name Philip. In London, he studied theology and in 1765 was ordained in the Church of England. Phillip Quaque was the first African to be ordained as a minister of the Church of England.[1] The same year, he married Catherine Blunt, an English woman, and the two returned to Cape Coast the following year.

The Royal African Company employed Quaque as the chaplain at Cape Coast Castle. He set up a small school in his own house, "especially for the training of Mulatto children who were growing in large numbers",[2] and attempted to work as a missionary, but having forgotten most of his native tongue, Fante, he was unable to make any conversions and experienced difficulty connecting with the natives. He married twice more, these times to African women, and in 1784 sent his two children for education in London.

The Letters of Philip Quaque[edit]
Quaque wrote a series of letters to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, London from 1765 to 1811 telling of his successes, trials, and hardships during his time at Cape Coast Castle. These letters also depict a colorful and insightful image of life on the West African coast during his time there, such as the workings African politics and territorial and trade relations. He tells of a number of things including the large amount of deaths of Europeans shortly after their arrival, including the death of his first wife in 1766. Most of his letters speak mainly of his baptisms, paying special attention to those that included “others,” or non-mulatto children. Though his school was initially “for the instruction of mulatto children only of both sexes,” Quaque did eventually begin taking in African children. This did not, however, negate his disapproval of many aspects of their (and technically his) culture, including their language (which he used to speak), their religion, and their communalist practices.

Through his letters, particularly the one dated 1767, we get a thorough sense of the difficulty of Quaque's job as a missionary and how it conflicted with the traditionally polytheistic society he was living in. Also very telling through his letters is the influence of the endeavors of European nations to gain control, or at least an advantage, along the coast. In his letter dated July 30, 1775, he mentions the resulting bloodshed of a conflict, which he later mediated, between the local Dutch allies and his own townspeople. Such conflicts, as well as competition with the slave trade and the American Revolution, play a large role in the number of factors behind Quaque's supposedly limited success. Yet for these reasons, many grant Quaque glory for the number of baptisms he was able to perform, as well as the fact that he consistently stayed in touch with the Society over the course of several decades, even into his state of illness, despite the London headquarters only sending him 3 letters in response during his entire time stationed there.

Quaque received much criticism from both sides. In one of his letters he speaks of the harsh discrimination by Africans towards Europeans, and expresses that he himself even experiences it, regardless of his African descent. On the European side, he was criticized for becoming too involved in the coastal society, largely in part due to his marriages to local women, and the interpretation of his letters to not have been dissociated from his own culture.[3]
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”,

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Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”,

In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”

“Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”

He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”

“Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”

“NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

What has your tribal induced nonsense of a question got to do with the issue under discourse, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe?

What has your tribal induced nonsense of a question got to do with the issue under discourse, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe?
PHILTY McNASTY 8 years ago

The F..k is what were Fantis African names before surnames like Jonas, Sam, Paul, Eyeson, Duncan-Williams, Ricketts-Hagan, etc.?

And why brofolize Botwe to Botchwey, Aniba to Eyeson, Dua to Woods, Amo to Rice, Kweku to Qu ...
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The F..k is what were Fantis African names before surnames like Jonas, Sam, Paul, Eyeson, Duncan-Williams, Ricketts-Hagan, etc.?

And why brofolize Botwe to Botchwey, Aniba to Eyeson, Dua to Woods, Amo to Rice, Kweku to Quarcoo, Kwabena to Cobina, Kwesi to Quasey, etc.?

Why do they go to such extreme ends to pass for Englishmen, at least on paper? Methinks they have white wannabe syndrome. But my beef is while they make themselves laughing stock in the eyes of whites, they drag me along as a Ghanaian and African. Just imagine being in the room with white colleagues at work watching CNN when Obama visited Ghana. For a while they were incredulously bemused by John Evans Atta Mills - black like you and I, standing besides half-white Barack Hussain Obama. Looking at their names as it crawled below the newsfeed, it appeared Obama was more African than John Evans Atta Mills. I had a hard time explaining to them how a black African, born and raised in Black Africa, Ghana, could be sporting such a house-slave name. Mills in their eyes was Uncle Tom, when they die they wished they went to a white heaven. A man who loses his culture is a ship that has cast afloat at sea without any bearings.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

Your inarticulateness to explain to them as to how those "Europeanish" name came about in that region of Ghana, tells volumes about you as a person. I thought you were very rich in history academically? Hmm, I see! Now, why d ...
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Your inarticulateness to explain to them as to how those "Europeanish" name came about in that region of Ghana, tells volumes about you as a person. I thought you were very rich in history academically? Hmm, I see! Now, why do most common Jewish last names sound German? Also, why do most Liberian name sound dramatically American? Last, but not the least, what is your first name and most first names in Ghana and of course, across the continent as a whole? Can you honestly answer those questions before
T'pau 8 years ago

Please stick to the name of your lineage and leave others to do likewise. Do you expect someone from a paternal ancestry of the Ephsons or Pratts to call him- or herself Nkwantabisa or Antobam? While local surnames names are ...
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Please stick to the name of your lineage and leave others to do likewise. Do you expect someone from a paternal ancestry of the Ephsons or Pratts to call him- or herself Nkwantabisa or Antobam? While local surnames names are beautiful and sweet, one cannot assume one arbitrarily just because you want to be perceived as local.
PHILTY McNASTY 8 years ago

T'pau,

What was their African names before surnames like Jonas, Sam, Paul, Eyeson, Duncan-Williams, Ricketts-Hagan etc.?

And why brofolize Botwe to Botchwey, Aniba to Eyeson, Dua to Woods, Amo to Rice, Kweku to Quarcoo ...
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T'pau,

What was their African names before surnames like Jonas, Sam, Paul, Eyeson, Duncan-Williams, Ricketts-Hagan etc.?

And why brofolize Botwe to Botchwey, Aniba to Eyeson, Dua to Woods, Amo to Rice, Kweku to Quarcoo etc.?

Why do they go to such extreme ends to pass for Englishmen, at least on paper? Methinks they have white wannabe syndrome. But my beef is why they make themselves laughing stock in the eyes of whites, they drag me along as a Ghanaian and African. Just imagine being the room with white colleagues at work watching CNN when Obama visited Ghana. For a while they were incredulously bemused by John Evans Atta Mills - black like you and me, standing besides half-white Barack Hussain Obama. Looking at their names as it crawled below the newsfeed, it appeared Obama was more African than John Evans Atta Mills. I had a hard time explaining to them how a black African, born and raised in Black Africa, Ghana, could be sporting such a house-slave name.
PHILTY McNASTY 8 years ago

What was their African names before surnames like Jonas, Sam, Paul, Eyeson, Duncan-Williams, Ricketts-Hagan etc.?

And why brofolize Botwe to Botchwey, Aniba to Eyeson, Dua to Woods, Amo to Rice, Kweku to Quarcoo etc.?

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What was their African names before surnames like Jonas, Sam, Paul, Eyeson, Duncan-Williams, Ricketts-Hagan etc.?

And why brofolize Botwe to Botchwey, Aniba to Eyeson, Dua to Woods, Amo to Rice, Kweku to Quarcoo etc.?

Why do they go to such extreme ends to pass for Englishmen, at least on paper? Methinks they have white wannabe syndrome. But my beef is while they make themselves laughing stock in the eyes of whites, they drag me along as a Ghanaian and African. Just imagine being in the room with white colleagues at work watching CNN when Obama visited Ghana. For a while they were incredulously bemused by John Evans Atta Mills - black like you and I, standing besides half-white Barack Hussain Obama. Looking at their names as it crawled below the newsfeed, it appeared Obama was more African than John Evans Atta Mills. I had a hard time explaining to them how a black African, born and raised in Black Africa, Ghana, could be sporting such a house-slave name.
mosquito 2 8 years ago

Your ignorance is at par with a buffoon. Res,earch and you be educated. Anyway is this your real name? I'm gobsmacked!

Your ignorance is at par with a buffoon. Res,earch and you be educated. Anyway is this your real name? I'm gobsmacked!
dr bawumia 8 years ago

and mahama will win at last thanks mr pollster

and mahama will win at last thanks mr pollster
Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 8 years ago

Can someone tell this fat stupid man to shut up his stinking bottom and mouth? he does not know anything and he is too corrupt. This stupid fool has not seen anything wrong with Mahama till date. The biggest are fools said by ...
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Can someone tell this fat stupid man to shut up his stinking bottom and mouth? he does not know anything and he is too corrupt. This stupid fool has not seen anything wrong with Mahama till date. The biggest are fools said by one of my tutors!
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the nex ...
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AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the next flag bearer of the Party by excluding them even before the mortal remains of the demised President were interred. It is also symptomatic of how political party elites in Ghana and Africa worm their way into the confidences of persons perceived as likely to ascend to power positions for purposes of eventual personal economic gain at the expense of the generality of the mass of Party members and the Nation which every President swears to serve under the Constitution
Kanawu 8 years ago

Hi old warrior. My humble recipe for political success are loyalty, honesty and perseverance. Trust me; all parties want power so will reward to keep loyal, honest and persevering members.

Hi old warrior. My humble recipe for political success are loyalty, honesty and perseverance. Trust me; all parties want power so will reward to keep loyal, honest and persevering members.
Kanawu 8 years ago

OH, SO THE BIGGEST ARE FOOLS? THEN AFOKO AND JAKE ARE FAR BIGGER THAN THIS HUMBLE MAN; SO NDC IS A BIG FOOL BUT NPP ARE THE BIGGER AND BIGGEST FOOLS! THINK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR HAYWIRE MOUTH!

OH, SO THE BIGGEST ARE FOOLS? THEN AFOKO AND JAKE ARE FAR BIGGER THAN THIS HUMBLE MAN; SO NDC IS A BIG FOOL BUT NPP ARE THE BIGGER AND BIGGEST FOOLS! THINK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR HAYWIRE MOUTH!
Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 8 years ago

Do you get me right? You cannot change my mind if you have something tangible to say go and tell mahama who is now destroying everything in Ghana yet you idiots cannot utter a word just because he is the president. Aboa funu ...
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Do you get me right? You cannot change my mind if you have something tangible to say go and tell mahama who is now destroying everything in Ghana yet you idiots cannot utter a word just because he is the president. Aboa funu!
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 8 years ago

Mr Greenstreet is a wheel chair user and not wheel chair bound because he is not tied to the wheel chair permanently. His election is paradigm shift in Ghanaian national politics. The first with physical impairment to be elec ...
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Mr Greenstreet is a wheel chair user and not wheel chair bound because he is not tied to the wheel chair permanently. His election is paradigm shift in Ghanaian national politics. The first with physical impairment to be elected Presidential Candidate by a national political party. That is credit to the CPP.
Kwame Adzo 8 years ago

Cheap analysis

Cheap analysis
Nana Peprah 8 years ago

Gerrout u dnt knw anything

Gerrout u dnt knw anything
MANB USA 8 years ago

what are the qualifications of Greenstreet? Anyone knows? Law, Economic and Science macadamias are projected as good presidents.

what are the qualifications of Greenstreet? Anyone knows? Law, Economic and Science macadamias are projected as good presidents.
Kweku Boateng Jnr. 8 years ago

A lawyer like Nana.

A lawyer like Nana.
SAINT 8 years ago

HE IS NOT LIKE NANA WHO IS KNOWN TO HAVE NO LAW CERTIFICATE.

GREENSTREET IS A QUALIFIED LAWYER BOTH AT ENGLISH INNER TEMPLE AND GHANA BAR.
ALSO, HE IS A WRITER, PUBLISHER AND BUSINESSMAN

UNFORTUNATELY, HE BECAME PHYSI ...
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HE IS NOT LIKE NANA WHO IS KNOWN TO HAVE NO LAW CERTIFICATE.

GREENSTREET IS A QUALIFIED LAWYER BOTH AT ENGLISH INNER TEMPLE AND GHANA BAR.
ALSO, HE IS A WRITER, PUBLISHER AND BUSINESSMAN

UNFORTUNATELY, HE BECAME PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED THROUGH MOTOR ACCIDENT
Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 8 years ago

Tell your stupid president to build Ghana rather than destroying everything. Mahama is evil, Satan and thief.

Tell your stupid president to build Ghana rather than destroying everything. Mahama is evil, Satan and thief.
Kanawu 8 years ago

Unlike Greenstreet, Nana was rejected and given his second choice economics; not law that he later paid expensively to read. Nana's first job as a lawyer was with a french law firm that was involved in the SSB privatization ...
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Unlike Greenstreet, Nana was rejected and given his second choice economics; not law that he later paid expensively to read. Nana's first job as a lawyer was with a french law firm that was involved in the SSB privatization scandal
Yahàya Hàmidu 8 years ago

Omanba Pa watch your mouth and make sure it doesnt become stinky. Take Ben Epheson analyses serious for it surely come to pass. For Nana and his vice Bawumia not NOW!

Omanba Pa watch your mouth and make sure it doesnt become stinky. Take Ben Epheson analyses serious for it surely come to pass. For Nana and his vice Bawumia not NOW!
Ernest 8 years ago

Omanba Pa and Old Soldier is same person behind the incessant insults. Dzimakpla.... learn some decorum.

Omanba Pa and Old Soldier is same person behind the incessant insults. Dzimakpla.... learn some decorum.
Painkiller 8 years ago

And I am suspecting that they are both programmed to spew garbage on Ghanaweb. They recycle dead and rotten postings with new headings. They also are illiterates who do not read the news item under discussion.
Hei people, we ...
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And I am suspecting that they are both programmed to spew garbage on Ghanaweb. They recycle dead and rotten postings with new headings. They also are illiterates who do not read the news item under discussion.
Hei people, we just have to ignore them and carry on with what the platform is supposed to serve: healthy exchange of ideas for the sake of Mother Ghana. When we disagree on an issue, we don't become enemies and start raining insults on each other!
YF 8 years ago

You are the Dzimakpla, nonsense.

You are the Dzimakpla, nonsense.
Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 8 years ago

What does this fat man knows? He is doing dirty politics in Ghana yet people trust him. NDC has told him to come out to say this to Ghanaians. If not only in Ghana who else will waste his time to vote for John Dramni Mahama a ...
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What does this fat man knows? He is doing dirty politics in Ghana yet people trust him. NDC has told him to come out to say this to Ghanaians. If not only in Ghana who else will waste his time to vote for John Dramni Mahama and his NDC wicked and evil people?
Mawriz 8 years ago

But we are only in Ghana and many of us(myself included will vote for mahama).

But we are only in Ghana and many of us(myself included will vote for mahama).
The African Patriot 8 years ago

Good that many more have decided to vote against President Mahama because he is a thief and lier who create, loot and share with his cronies. Only tribal minded people will vote for him and later come to the Akans and seek fo ...
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Good that many more have decided to vote against President Mahama because he is a thief and lier who create, loot and share with his cronies. Only tribal minded people will vote for him and later come to the Akans and seek for help.

What will happen, if Akans also vote merely for their own and service their own only?
One Love 8 years ago

You can continue with your hate speeches! ""Who Jah bless(s) no one curse(s)". If you want to vote for someone else, no problem, that is your choice, but there are millions of Ghanaians who love President John Dramani Mahama ...
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You can continue with your hate speeches! ""Who Jah bless(s) no one curse(s)". If you want to vote for someone else, no problem, that is your choice, but there are millions of Ghanaians who love President John Dramani Mahama and will vote for him! Afterall, "the devil you know is better than the angel you don't know"!
One Love 8 years ago

You can continue with your hate speeches! ""Who Jah bless(es) no one curse(s)". If you want to vote for someone else, no problem, that is your choice, but there are millions of Ghanaians who love President John Dramani Mahama ...
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You can continue with your hate speeches! ""Who Jah bless(es) no one curse(s)". If you want to vote for someone else, no problem, that is your choice, but there are millions of Ghanaians who love President John Dramani Mahama and will vote for him! Afterall, "the devil you know is better than the angel you don't know"!
Efo Kwaawaaku Canada 8 years ago

Who takes this stomach pollster serious, you're nothing but stomach idiot who doesn't know shit as much as Ghanaians voters are concerned, you and Kwasi Pratt are stomach journalist in our political time, no brains senseless ...
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Who takes this stomach pollster serious, you're nothing but stomach idiot who doesn't know shit as much as Ghanaians voters are concerned, you and Kwasi Pratt are stomach journalist in our political time, no brains senseless people who doesn't care about Ghanaians suffering but your selfish interest, I don't take you guys serious about your analysis
Benny 8 years ago

Papa Epson there is no way. The World fastest 100meter runner is Bolt right but when Bolt is competing with others those within the race think Bolt will win yet they compete within. Dont dream Greenstreet is an engloman and a ...
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Papa Epson there is no way. The World fastest 100meter runner is Bolt right but when Bolt is competing with others those within the race think Bolt will win yet they compete within. Dont dream Greenstreet is an engloman and a CPPMAN his place is either 3 or 4 for Nana Kunadu party is to enter the 4 place if she context.
Nana Kwame 8 years ago

Yes, Ivor Greenstreet will take votes away from Mahama and the NDC. Since both the NPP and CPP have an internal divided party makeup The NDC has a poor leader who is looking for a second term so he and his family can put the ...
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Yes, Ivor Greenstreet will take votes away from Mahama and the NDC. Since both the NPP and CPP have an internal divided party makeup The NDC has a poor leader who is looking for a second term so he and his family can put the final nails into the coffin.

If the CPP had a party base like the NDC or NPP, John Mahama will have zero chance of holding onto power. The NPP and their supporters are stongly behind Nana Addo, that is 49% of the votes solid for NPP. Now the NDC with the ill performing young corrupt president can only hope to do as well as Atta Mills did in the 2008 election at a 47%. With a strong CPP party that percentage could reduce drastically.

A round off could be between NPP and NDC or a shocker will be CPP and NPP.

Boys Abr3!! Green all the Way!
Bilal Adams 8 years ago

Ephson doubles as Minister without portfolio and NDC Propaganda Secretary for Media Affairs. Yet, he is imposing himself on Ghanaians as an expert in everything. Too bad for both NDC and Ephson this time. Ephson has done it s ...
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Ephson doubles as Minister without portfolio and NDC Propaganda Secretary for Media Affairs. Yet, he is imposing himself on Ghanaians as an expert in everything. Too bad for both NDC and Ephson this time. Ephson has done it so desperately and stupidly that his opinions only infuriate Ghanaians. Fat belly is not fat brain!
ISSA ABONGO 8 years ago

BEN EPHSON IS ONLY FULL OF CRAP. THE NATION IS GOING INTO THE ABYSS AND ALL HE CARES ABOUT IS WHO SENDS ELECTIONS INTO A RUN OFF???????????? CRAP!!!!!!!!!!

BEN EPHSON IS ONLY FULL OF CRAP. THE NATION IS GOING INTO THE ABYSS AND ALL HE CARES ABOUT IS WHO SENDS ELECTIONS INTO A RUN OFF???????????? CRAP!!!!!!!!!!
Talk True 8 years ago

Freedom of speech! No insults! What is wrong if Ben Ephson speaks his mind? You run down someone who says what you don't want to hear! What about you? Are you sure you are not spewing garbage?

Freedom of speech! No insults! What is wrong if Ben Ephson speaks his mind? You run down someone who says what you don't want to hear! What about you? Are you sure you are not spewing garbage?
Undercover Pollster 8 years ago

What about internal party dynamics? Don't that matter? Any party with factions at each other's throat has enemies within to contend with. How's Abu Sakara's issue going to play out? Already we have Samia and Akosa firing on b ...
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What about internal party dynamics? Don't that matter? Any party with factions at each other's throat has enemies within to contend with. How's Abu Sakara's issue going to play out? Already we have Samia and Akosa firing on bribery of delegates! They are going to launch agenda 2020.
Joe 8 years ago

The victory of Ivor Greenstreet will hurt NDC in that NDC was not a political party. In Ghana we had UP and CPP. Majority of members of NDC are made up of CPP members who did not join forces with NPP which is the offspring of ...
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The victory of Ivor Greenstreet will hurt NDC in that NDC was not a political party. In Ghana we had UP and CPP. Majority of members of NDC are made up of CPP members who did not join forces with NPP which is the offspring of UP. With the victory of Greenstreet if the CPP are able to bring their members who deserted them to join NDC, then NDC will be in big trouble, and that will see the end of NDC as a party. As far as I am concerned, NDC is on their way out since all the deserted members of CPP who are in NDC will return to make CPP formidable. NDC, I certainly believe, is out of election 2016.
Painkiller 8 years ago

Your analysis is not bad at all. You too talk some. But you left out CPPs in NPP! Do you think the acting Chair of NPP, Blay will run back to CPP? Again what do you make of Samia and Akosa's allegation? You think these two an ...
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Your analysis is not bad at all. You too talk some. But you left out CPPs in NPP! Do you think the acting Chair of NPP, Blay will run back to CPP? Again what do you make of Samia and Akosa's allegation? You think these two and their followers will back Ivor?
Joe 8 years ago

NDC has majority of CPP members than NPP because majority of them felt reluctant to join NPP when CPP was finding difficulty in organizing themselves ever since the fall of Dr. Nkrumah so they all found themselves into NDC wh ...
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NDC has majority of CPP members than NPP because majority of them felt reluctant to join NPP when CPP was finding difficulty in organizing themselves ever since the fall of Dr. Nkrumah so they all found themselves into NDC which was not a political party then but came into being as a result of advantage JJ took being a head of state at that time. My observation now is that, if Greenstreet is able to call those who have left to come back, NDC will be in trouble. Of course, not all of them would like to come back but I believe majority of them will. On Samia and Akosa, I believe it is politics as usual when you lose, you make comments one way or the other. At the end of the day, they will support Ivor and the good news for CPP is that, Abu Sakara Forster will be coming back to CPP since Ivor has extended his hands already to those who left to come back. On Blay, he is seated and rooted in NPP and there is no turning back. Look out for CPP in 2016, they will make a difference.
Painkiller 8 years ago

Joe, what about CPP joining forces with NDC to fight the NPP? After all, it is under JJ in PNDC and later NDC that we saw and continue to see the efforts to preserve Nkrumah's image and and ideology. Who built the Nkrumah Mus ...
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Joe, what about CPP joining forces with NDC to fight the NPP? After all, it is under JJ in PNDC and later NDC that we saw and continue to see the efforts to preserve Nkrumah's image and and ideology. Who built the Nkrumah Musoluem? NPP attempted to wipe out Flagstaff House by building a presidential palace at the very spot and renamed it Jubilee House. The university in Kumasi got back its original name Kwame Nkrumah Univ of Science and Technology. NDC pushed for Nkrumah's recognition at AU to the extent that his huge statue now stands in Addis, something some "against" people were not happy about.
To me CPP as a party is a spent force. I don't see it conquering NDC and NPP. Under the circumstances, it sounds prudent for CPP, PNC, PPP and all anti-UP parties to join forces with NDC and keep Nkrumah's ideology alive.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

The CPP party delegates electing Greenstreet to lead their party into the upcoming 2016 elections is just a storm in NDC's tea-cup. The NPP party on the other must watch out since they have a strong and possible contender cha ...
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The CPP party delegates electing Greenstreet to lead their party into the upcoming 2016 elections is just a storm in NDC's tea-cup. The NPP party on the other must watch out since they have a strong and possible contender challenging them over the status of the largest opposition party.

Achakanapaya!
Joe 8 years ago

You remember Greenstreet who gave a solidarity speech from CPP at the NDC convention at the Kumasi Stadium some time last year or so. Greenstreet spoke against NDC that no one was feeling their better Ghana agenda. He spoke ...
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You remember Greenstreet who gave a solidarity speech from CPP at the NDC convention at the Kumasi Stadium some time last year or so. Greenstreet spoke against NDC that no one was feeling their better Ghana agenda. He spoke a lot against NDC in the presence of their leaders including JJ when eventually Sam George classifying him that he is shortsighted to see the development projects of NDC; which was interpreted by many commentators as making fun of Greenstreet's disability. This did not go well with majority of CPP and other well meaning Ghanaians, so there is no way that CPP with Greenstreet as their presidential candidate will join forces with NDC. NDC cannot preserve Nkrumah's ideas because NDC does not represent CPP. I believe November elections will be very interesting and NDC should watch out not NPP because CPP is ready to get back all their members who joined NDC. Time will tell.
Kanawu 8 years ago

And since majority of ghanaians support nkrumaism as against " two-region" tribal crony capitalist npp, they will vote against npp; run-off or no run-off.

And since majority of ghanaians support nkrumaism as against " two-region" tribal crony capitalist npp, they will vote against npp; run-off or no run-off.
Ghana, my beloved country! 8 years ago

Will this be CPP's 1st time in taking part in the general elections in the Fourth Republic? Didn't CPP contest in previous elections in this Fourth Republic and still lost? If NDC or NPP will win they will still win. CPP can ...
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Will this be CPP's 1st time in taking part in the general elections in the Fourth Republic? Didn't CPP contest in previous elections in this Fourth Republic and still lost? If NDC or NPP will win they will still win. CPP can only be a formidable political force if it can win back its lost members!
Kbena 8 years ago

I AM NOT AGAINST DISABLED PEOPLE BUT I AM SORRY GHANA IS NEVER READY FOR A DISABLE PRESIDENT.

I AM NOT AGAINST DISABLED PEOPLE BUT I AM SORRY GHANA IS NEVER READY FOR A DISABLE PRESIDENT.
Johannes B Awotwe 8 years ago

In case your empty head does not contain this info, let me tell you that the German Minister of Finance, the mightiest economist in Europe is also disabled and sits in a wheelchair.

Yet he has transformed the entire Europe ...
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In case your empty head does not contain this info, let me tell you that the German Minister of Finance, the mightiest economist in Europe is also disabled and sits in a wheelchair.

Yet he has transformed the entire Europe and is the main breadwinner for most of the poor EU states.

And what Mr Greenstreet and Mr Schauble have in common is that both are qualified lawyers and economists AND were not born disabled but became disbled by accident: Greenstreet through car accident, Mr Schauble through an attack in October 1990.
amoah w. 8 years ago

sure his head is empty--lol

sure his head is empty--lol
Nana Malik 8 years ago

Nonsense,you must be ashamed of yourself

Nonsense,you must be ashamed of yourself
Concerned 8 years ago

A certain paul gyamfi was president for over 20 years and he wasn't even physically disabled but mentally. We don't need Greenstreet's physical abilities otherwise bukom banku would be president of Ghana . fortunately for us ...
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A certain paul gyamfi was president for over 20 years and he wasn't even physically disabled but mentally. We don't need Greenstreet's physical abilities otherwise bukom banku would be president of Ghana . fortunately for us he has impeccable qualities to lead the country and he would definitely have my vote at least in the first round
Kanawu 8 years ago

HEY CPP CAMPAIGN TIPS FOR YOU: GHANAIANS ARE FED UP WITH P*NIS WIELDING HAREBRAINED MACHO POLITICIANS WHO ARE CORRUPT AND ONLY S*X COMPETENT SO ELECT SOMEONE WHO WILL CONCENTRATE MORE ON NATION BUILDING AND LESS ON ADULT*RO ...
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HEY CPP CAMPAIGN TIPS FOR YOU: GHANAIANS ARE FED UP WITH P*NIS WIELDING HAREBRAINED MACHO POLITICIANS WHO ARE CORRUPT AND ONLY S*X COMPETENT SO ELECT SOMEONE WHO WILL CONCENTRATE MORE ON NATION BUILDING AND LESS ON ADULT*ROUS TRIPS ABROAD!
Adu Boah 8 years ago

I will be happy when certain people are denied the privilege to comment on certain platform. Old soldier wat was ur comment towards the read article. U were given the opportunity to say something good to the new elected presi ...
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I will be happy when certain people are denied the privilege to comment on certain platform. Old soldier wat was ur comment towards the read article. U were given the opportunity to say something good to the new elected presidential candidate and not focus on the achievement of other people. How many filing stations do you have, how many houses do you have, please cry your own cry okay. Thank you
Ethiopia 8 years ago

Tell ur Mahama to start looting more bcos come NovDec his anus will spit fire.

Tell ur Mahama to start looting more bcos come NovDec his anus will spit fire.
apuuuu 8 years ago

Ndc party should worry more about Mr Greenstreet what he is going to say about incompetent corrupty dead goat dumsor President Mahama(MAAMA) not runoff Big fat Ben Ephson apuuuu

Ndc party should worry more about Mr Greenstreet what he is going to say about incompetent corrupty dead goat dumsor President Mahama(MAAMA) not runoff Big fat Ben Ephson apuuuu
ORIGINAL VOICE OF REASON 8 years ago

Just like Nduom did with Kuffour.....that is the surest way to rid ourselves of this low IQ pea brain buffoon who rigged 2012 elections to be prez.A pact with NPP will ensure his demise even with help from Charlotte Osei,the ...
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Just like Nduom did with Kuffour.....that is the surest way to rid ourselves of this low IQ pea brain buffoon who rigged 2012 elections to be prez.A pact with NPP will ensure his demise even with help from Charlotte Osei,the conniving EC boss.
Mawriz 8 years ago

I can see your high IQ bursting out of your head.

I can see your high IQ bursting out of your head.
Obolai 8 years ago

Get the right soundbite that the voters would identify ....mwith and get the surprise of a life time

Get the right soundbite that the voters would identify ....mwith and get the surprise of a life time
jka 8 years ago

This idiotic NDC propagandist is now talking about run off but not a straight win for his pay master Mahama. wonders will never end. He dreams but it will never happen. Mahama will never get the chance to go for a run off.

This idiotic NDC propagandist is now talking about run off but not a straight win for his pay master Mahama. wonders will never end. He dreams but it will never happen. Mahama will never get the chance to go for a run off.
Adu Boah 8 years ago

Congrat and wish you best of luck in the November polls

Congrat and wish you best of luck in the November polls
Odikro 8 years ago

Unemployeds posing as pollsters.

Unemployeds posing as pollsters.
Chief 8 years ago

History reminds us that the conqueror of the Ghana empire, Sundiata, was a cripple. He conquered many states including Ghana empire and formed Mali empire.

This man is the right person to bring change to Ghana and I am go ...
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History reminds us that the conqueror of the Ghana empire, Sundiata, was a cripple. He conquered many states including Ghana empire and formed Mali empire.

This man is the right person to bring change to Ghana and I am going to vote for him.
Bra Emma-Dallas 8 years ago

Why call him wheel chair bound , that is so insensitive and stupid. WHAT HAS JOURNALISM COME.

Why call him wheel chair bound , that is so insensitive and stupid. WHAT HAS JOURNALISM COME.
earl. 8 years ago

Akoa wei ne nkwasia keka de3.

Akoa wei ne nkwasia keka de3.
big brother 8 years ago

useless man always talk from his stomach

useless man always talk from his stomach
Br yr brm 8 years ago

There is no going to be any second round. CPP is going to win hands down to bring to an end Nkrumahs CPP detractors in the name of Danquah Busia tradition and NP

There is no going to be any second round. CPP is going to win hands down to bring to an end Nkrumahs CPP detractors in the name of Danquah Busia tradition and NP
National Agenda 8 years ago

Hehehehe......NDC will fall flat!!!! No election rigging for NDC this time. Ben Ephson is begging for run off? Tweaaaaaaaa NDC will fall flat. NDC will lose straight away ....no run off.

Hehehehe......NDC will fall flat!!!! No election rigging for NDC this time. Ben Ephson is begging for run off? Tweaaaaaaaa NDC will fall flat. NDC will lose straight away ....no run off.
big brother 8 years ago

this man need to go to check up he has mental problem

this man need to go to check up he has mental problem
save ghana 8 years ago

Ben ephson de foolster foodian. pls predict that NDC will win for us. run off is too far. mahama will still go. the thief man kleptomaniac

Ben ephson de foolster foodian. pls predict that NDC will win for us. run off is too far. mahama will still go. the thief man kleptomaniac
YF 8 years ago

If you follow ndc you get enemies for yourself in Ghana, hence Ben Ephson, Kwasi Pratt etc Ghanaians can't take them.The Ghanaian people are suffering and these people collect state money from the ndc to talk for them, Ghanai ...
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If you follow ndc you get enemies for yourself in Ghana, hence Ben Ephson, Kwasi Pratt etc Ghanaians can't take them.The Ghanaian people are suffering and these people collect state money from the ndc to talk for them, Ghanaians are dying and these people are enjoying the money which are supposed to go to our health sector to take care of them.Then after filling their stomach come to talk trash.GOD WILL PUNISH SUCH PEOPLE.
Mawriz 8 years ago

If the people are suffering, why worry, they have the opportunity to vote the government out come November. Don't curse people here. Just as you have the right to support some other people, which you believe will bring an end ...
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If the people are suffering, why worry, they have the opportunity to vote the government out come November. Don't curse people here. Just as you have the right to support some other people, which you believe will bring an end to your struggle, they also have the same right to think otherwise.
Patriot 8 years ago

You got to be joking. If any party could send the election into a runoff it would not be CPP. Think again man. Your prediction stinks.

You got to be joking. If any party could send the election into a runoff it would not be CPP. Think again man. Your prediction stinks.
uncle Sam 8 years ago

I wish Ivor could but he cannot come Nov. 7, 2016. His destiny is to bring back home the Nduoms, the Sakarr's, the Limaan's & the brilliant, dynamic, incorruptible youth to correct the ills of June 4, 1979 - Jan 6, 2009, Wel ...
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I wish Ivor could but he cannot come Nov. 7, 2016. His destiny is to bring back home the Nduoms, the Sakarr's, the Limaan's & the brilliant, dynamic, incorruptible youth to correct the ills of June 4, 1979 - Jan 6, 2009, Welcome Kobina Abayiee!
Dr. Samuel Opuko,London 8 years ago

It is time for the disabled people need to be Ghana president who can be solved the Ghana economy problem we have to front.

It is time for the disabled people need to be Ghana president who can be solved the Ghana economy problem we have to front.
NOBODY 8 years ago

Don't count on it. Even Dr. Nduom, a more popular and highly respected flagbearer than Greenstreet, could not make a dent in the vote tabulation.

Don't count on it. Even Dr. Nduom, a more popular and highly respected flagbearer than Greenstreet, could not make a dent in the vote tabulation.
prince husein abubakari Tamale 8 years ago

yes I think our boss is making since but we don't prayed for that
b/c of the problem ahead

yes I think our boss is making since but we don't prayed for that
b/c of the problem ahead
Chicago Guy 8 years ago

Don't comes to Michigan state because F.B.I is waiting for you

Don't comes to Michigan state because F.B.I is waiting for you
Mawriz 8 years ago

FBI don't wait for wanted people, they pursue them no matter where they are.

FBI don't wait for wanted people, they pursue them no matter where they are.
Fanti Man 8 years ago

This is not a rocket science Mr stomach politicians

This is not a rocket science Mr stomach politicians
GYAKARI 8 years ago

GUESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET US HAVE PEACE OF MIND!!!!!!!!!!!

YOUR PREDICTION IS ALWAYS FALSE!!!!!!!!

VOTERS REGISTER IS FALSE!!!!!!

HOW CAN YOU PREDICT ON FALSE ASSUMPTION? FOOL!!

FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO ...
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GUESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET US HAVE PEACE OF MIND!!!!!!!!!!!

YOUR PREDICTION IS ALWAYS FALSE!!!!!!!!

VOTERS REGISTER IS FALSE!!!!!!

HOW CAN YOU PREDICT ON FALSE ASSUMPTION? FOOL!!

FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO WRITE!!!!!

Greenstreet can push 2016 polls into runoff – Ephson

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