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Databank’s Ken Ofori-Atta backs NPP’s election petition

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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Gov. Should protect these two patriotics , Akua Donkor and Wereko Brobby now!! These 2 individuals were nation builders, Gov. Should look for their well being before domestic Akan's npp tribal terrorists will throw their bomb ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    Idiots flock together in the bush as always.

  • OSORO GYA 10 years ago

    You're still dreaming about a battle you will never win.

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:SGT ANANI FIADZOE...

    Every civilized person in this world
    can be afraid of a thief, arm rober,a
    murderer and diabolical idiot which
    Tsikata is one, that is why we have
    Police whose duty it is to protect us
    fro ...
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  • WHISTLEBLOWER 2 10 years ago

    Thank you NANA ADDO

  • WISDOM IS BETTER THAN GOLD 10 years ago

    Listen, I am not NPP supporter at all. In fact,I campaigned vigorously for NDC during the 2008, not because it is any good party election , I thought maybe JJ Rawlings was stupid and didn't know what to do and I was expecting ...
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  • BlindMan 10 years ago

    Who cares of your NDC 'affiliation'; it's what you are able to DELIVER, using your head that matters!
    And we all do the same if we are Ken Ofori-Atta. It's understandable of his position, the PRESSURE is unbearable and had t ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • ghana boy 10 years ago

    PLEASE LETS SLEEING DOGS LIE OR ELSE BE READY TO WITHNESS WAR IN GHANA

  • FELA O FELA: NPP BONESHAKER LA 10 years ago

    SWEET DREAMS EASES THE PAINS OF A HASH REALITY!!!!

    After losing some $50 million or so from the 2008 election defeat, and has since fell sick of a strange and uncurable disease, instead of this man keeping quiet and mendin ...
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  • EEEEHHHHUUUUUOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN HAS SUPERVISED MANY ELECTIONS IN GHANA AND HAS NEVER EXPERIENCED OR THOUGHT OF COURT ACTION. HE HAS THEREFORE BEEN SUPRISED BY NPP COURT ACTION. HE NEVER EBVISAGED A POLITICAL PARTY IN GHANA TAKING COURT ACTION AGA ...
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  • ghana boy 10 years ago

    YOU ARE ONE OF THE GREEDY BASTARD WHO DO NOT CARE ABOUT GHANA BUT ONLY THEIR SELFISH REASON; ARE YOU DREAMING? DO YOU THINK THAT NDC WILL HANDOVER POWER EASILY FOR NPP AFTER THIS OUR CONCONTE JUDGES DECISIONS?
    PLEASE DO NOT ...
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  • NPPsupporter 10 years ago

    Author:
    TerriblY Spe cifiC

    Date:
    2013-06-02 15:41:07

    Comment to:
    Re: DR. CHARLES WEREKO BROBBEY IS STUPID.


    NPP borrowed monies from Akyem mafia business for elections and lost miserably. as for the cocaine mo ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

    The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and ...
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  • Saka 10 years ago

    We all know Ken used people's money in his hands to fund Nana Addo's campaign in the 2012 presidential elections which he woefully lost. We cannot therefore expect him to kick against the court petition which we also know too ...
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  • Bonsu 10 years ago

    Not only wise persons but the truthful, Civilized, true Lovers of Ghana, Reasonable and Unbiased persons will support Current NPP leaders since Kuffour's Rule.
    GHANA CANNOT AFFORD TO WAISTE ANY MORE TIME WITH MILLS/MAHAMA ...
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  • krikri 10 years ago

    You pumped so much of your resources into the patapaa evil dwarf's campaign hoping, foolishly,that after Kufour's shameful and disgraceful looting of the economy, Ghanaians are crazy to vote for the NPP again. You have no cho ...
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  • OSEI THE SHOE-SHINE BOY 10 years ago

    Ken Ofori-Atta has no choice cos he is still hoping that things will change in their favour for him to be made the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, to enable him LOOT money to pay back the investors' monies that he used to fina ...
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  • kalusha 10 years ago

    Hahahahaha bankruptcy?

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    Don't forget, Mr. Ken Ofori Atta is not like Woyome and his party is not NDC so he is not indebted to anyone. He did not steal money like NDC did with Woyome, ok?

  • NPPsupporter 10 years ago

    OPEN LETTER TO NPP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

    June 3rd, 2013

    Dear Sir,

    RE: CONCERNS ABOUT THE NPP

    I wish to respectfully address you and other leaders of our party on some recent developments.

    For a while now, I h ...
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  • ghana boy 10 years ago

    THEN BE READY TO FIGHT YOUR WAY UP WITH YOUR NPP:
    THE NDC I KNOW WILL NOT TODAY AND TOMORROW STEP DOWN SO EASILY

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    idiots fuck together in the bush and scream"Adjei,Adjei,Adjei}but they cannot see Adjei>

  • he funded npp 10 years ago

    He funded Nana Addo so he is puuting his mouth to where his food is

  • SENSI MILLA 10 years ago

    THIS GUY LOST MILLIONS OF GHANA CEDIS THROUGH SPONSORING A LOSER TWICE IN A ROW. HE IS THINKING OF RECOUPING HIS INVESTMENT NOTHING ELSE. SORRY KWASEATO. WU SIKA ASHI USE SENSE NEXT TIME

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: OBAA YAA

    ...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever ques ...
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  • don patrico 10 years ago

    hypocrisy is your morning tea

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    that's not true. You think he is like NdC's woyome? No my bro, NPP is not thievery like NDC. Every member of NDC is a thief. The only one good in NDC is Martin Amidu. The only one bad in NPP is Tarzan and he has been traded f ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    Hahahahaaaa

  • Boat 10 years ago

    why is it that any time someone is expressing his opinion u will get others descending on him or her God save mother Ghana AMEN!

  • REALITY 10 years ago

    Do you call that statement an opinion when the man is one sided suggesting that that the president be removed and Nana be made a president? you and I know that supreme court has no power to remove one president and put some o ...
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  • AGYAAKU 10 years ago

    This is an opinion expressed by a bank-roller of the man who lost the election. It would have been surprising if Mr. Ofori-Atta had expressed a different sentiment, more especially, now that leading members of the party are e ...
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  • KATH 10 years ago

    Akrantie shit and smoky bat have destroyed his medulla oblongata. Akyem will never produce anything good for long time.

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  • KOMLA AGBESHIE 10 years ago

    Well done. NDC are fools and idiots

  • Osei 10 years ago

    Ken Ofori Atta is full of wisdom and intelligence. His observation is true and factual. Any good political development in Africa begins with Ghana. Is only hollow minded people who will insult and disagree with this writer.

  • KATH 10 years ago

    Such an Ivy league graduate, he is a dead man walking with all his investment gone into all die be die election - a terminal akrantie shit cancer! He should pray hard!

  • kwaku ananse 10 years ago

    What a tool this guys..given his status in the financial circles, youwill have expected that he will stay above the fray but he still thinks he is obligated to do his ethnic masters work or else he be banished from the akyem ...
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  • AZIZ 10 years ago

    foolish article,the will be no way tese election petition will go the way of npp,since theres no any evidence that show the election was rigged infavour of ndc,pls npp should give us arfe break and focu ...
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  • K BOATENG 10 years ago

    WHAT A HALLUCINATORY STATEMENT.LOOK AT A WEAK MIND DREAMING

  • Ketasco Headmaster 10 years ago

    Ken is a lobbyist. Is he eyeing the position of the governor of BoG.

  • kwame 10 years ago

    i bet you are referring to delusions. You heard these big words, but you dont have a clue how to use them. Typical NDC...clueless.

  • wayo 10 years ago

    Please don´t espect that to happen.

  • chigri wagadugu 10 years ago

    The wise are relaxed and waiting for
    The LORD. God bless you Ken.

  • Micheal 10 years ago

    How Mr Ofori Atta manages to sleep with such a skewed thought process, with a final result in which his party wins with a 10 PERCENTAGE points difference and sadly with a parliamentary seats deficit of 29 beats me. I give up. ...
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  • EDWARD THOMAS-USA 10 years ago

    Documentary evidence as well as tape-recorded speaches as was recently played in court are seasoned facts that may be difficult for our Lords in the court to defray. These facts are indelible to be washed uoff.

  • Real Ghanaian patriot 10 years ago

    These characters amaze me they speak. It looks like they are relying on their own laws besides the laws of the electoral process. It appears they understand what they are doing and it is only them who can interprete their own ...
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  • S.Dikaini 10 years ago

    Sori mr databanker,will u really forgive urself if 4million people votes are over turn to make nana the care taker president of ghana?Well,it's nice to prepare ahead of the verdict,,,

  • Ckm - Independent 10 years ago

    Chill out, how do you know if that 4 million votes were not transposed for mahama. That is why there is the pink sheet to check the fact. If SC thinks NPP didn't have a case, the court would have ended it.

    The pink sheet h ...
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  • ATO 10 years ago

    THIS GUY IS AKUFFO ADDO'S COUSIN AND ONE OF THE RELATIVES WHO RECEIVED THE SO-CALLED STOLEN DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS WHICH AKUFFO ADDO CLAIMED WERE STOLEN FROM HIS DESK DRAWERS WHEN HE WAS THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. WE KNOW ...
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  • Ckm - Independent 10 years ago

    Do you talk from your head or from your stomach? You are part of the reason Ghana is struggling and retrogression. Instead of being realistic with the situation at hand, you come on here with stupid comments. Ghana has the op ...
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  • Yeabr3 _Mo 10 years ago

    Busy sending out e-mails coaching some f their disgruntled supporters in Europe and NA on how to generate disaffection towards the current administration. I do not know the thinking of John Mahama,but the sooner he wakes up t ...
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  • SAKARA AHMED 10 years ago

    Offori atta or whatever you call yourself can continue to dream.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    This man is just looking for bread and butter on his family dinner table, just leave him alone to continue fooling himself. The Akyem men simply can not do a hard work, but rather their women do, to take care of the men count ...
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  • Roy 10 years ago

    Who cares. He is only a fool. He is a typical NPP member so what else can he do. He knows his party has lost the elections. He should get lost.

  • scarecrow 10 years ago

    Why is it that Nana Ado did not mount the witness box instead of Bawumia who is not a lawyer?what did Nana Ado afraid of to mount the witness box to defend the petition?Nana Ado knows very well that there was nothing for him ...
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  • Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

    The case is mainly about documentary evidence and statistical analysis. Bawumia is a damn good statistician, hence, no brainer. Democracy marches on in Ghana.

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    Who cares, who is this Ken Ofori-Atta?

  • Ama 10 years ago

    In your dreams mr man.

  • Ofosu 10 years ago

    What he has is not an investment bank

  • Be honest 10 years ago

    Call it whatever you will. This attitude of yours has a name. Its called ENVY

  • CHE ANDREW 10 years ago

    I will not even stoop so low as to call this dickhead a "banker" let alone "envy" his idiocy. What is it in him that one should waste his time and self-respect envying him for? A so-called banker that thinks like a drug addic ...
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  • Kojo Menka, Bremen, Germany 10 years ago

    What else should he do? An election that he personally invested so much funds, what else should he do. If the pink sheets were to signed, and all clerical errors taken care of, would the npp be in court today? Win and win con ...
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  • Okofo 10 years ago

    Ken Ofori-Atta supporting Nana Addo's petition is not a news bse that is exactly one is expecting to hear from him

  • USA 10 years ago

    useless

  • ghanabar 10 years ago

    ken ofori atta or when ever you call urself ,you are day dreaming Nana to be president over my dead body .you feel and think we any joking please advise your so call NPP support if they misbehave some drastice action will fac ...
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  • USA 10 years ago

    FOOLISH INVESTMENT

  • CHE ANDREW 10 years ago

    "When you think it is peace and safety, a suddenly destruction!" says Bob Marley. One would have thought a man like Ken Ofori-Atta would be above this kind of myopic reasoning. But alas! He is worse than an Anthony Carbon. Ke ...
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  • yaa dua 10 years ago

    The ppp and Gcpp never tied with 38,223 a piece representing 0.59%?.

  • Yaa Nkosuo 10 years ago

    Another "Lost and Found" Akyem stakeholder who is coming back home; so to speak.
    Just "dog" that EC perpetual, never-ending exercise of counting a mere 13,000 pink sheets and let's get cracking with serious business.
    About ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 10 years ago

    Hello to Ms Lamensdorf

  • Kalira 10 years ago

    Ghanaweb.dont you have anything for us to read again? This is total trash

  • taa 10 years ago

    This guy want post

  • MOVITOR 10 years ago

    anoda fuul, after you gave the Lilliputian millions of dollars belonging to other people and now spewing rubbish.go and dig gold under your akyem palace and pay back. moda fucka

  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    You see, the Judges will be doing more harm than good if they rule on the petitioner´s case in favour of the 1st petitioner due to these errors on the part of presiding officers of the EC! You know why? There are many Asokwa ...
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  • MATHEW 10 years ago

    I want to find from Ken and his NPP why are they not pleading rigging in the supreme court and rather pleading rigging in the court of public opinion.

    They should give us a break.

  • Nana Yaw Effah 10 years ago

    good job you are retired from your post at the Investment Bank.
    You should hqave been kiked out six months into your appointment.
    Mr Dayfreamer!

  • Papa Andoh 10 years ago

    Thanks, your message is Biblical.Tell Ghana to read 1 Kings 3:16-28. Long Live Nana Addo

  • NANA-USA 10 years ago

    THIS KEN OFORI ATTA IS SOLELY FROM AKYEM AND HE IS A BIG FOOL TO SAY THIS .ARE YOU A JUDGE IN THE SUPREME COURT? YOU PEOPLE WANT TO INCITE TROUBLE AND TROUBLE TROUBLES THOSE WHO TROUBLE.DO YOU RECLL WHAT THE NPP SAID TO MR. M ...
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  • WISDOM IS BETTER THAN GOLD 10 years ago

    I am not NPP supporter at all. In fact,I campaigned vigorously for NDC during the 2008, not because it is any good party election , I thought maybe JJ Rawlings was stupid and didn't know what to do and I was expecting a massi ...
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  • GbagbladzaV 10 years ago

    Look at another ingrate! If you really believe in the truth, tell Ghanaians what you did with SSNIT's Obotan money in the late 90s.

  • Agdo 10 years ago

    Re- Reality, re-read your piece, examine it honestly and be honest with yourself. You're a big disgrace.

  • ASANTEWA 10 years ago

    EXCELLENT COMMENT,KEN

  • Concern Ghanian 10 years ago

    ELECTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN FOR ALL

  • KWAKU KYERETWIE 10 years ago

    THE CASE IS SIMPLE NOW BECAUSE AFARI GYAN FAILED TO FILE AN AFFIDAVIT TO SPEAK AT THE SUPREME COURT ON THE CHALLENGE ISSUE. HE IS GRANTED A STAY IN COURT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS BUT HIS ANSWERS WOULD NOT HELP THE EC, BECAUSE THE ...
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  • Honestman 10 years ago

    The call is justified because the Chief Justice is our In-law and she MUST do everything illegal to get Nana Addo who is born to be president to the flagstaff at all cost. And so all Easterners must rise up to see that this h ...
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  • joe 10 years ago

    no wonder ur bank is collapsing. u think they will come back to steal through u? never again!

  • Your mother Abuaba Ken 10 years ago

    Akuffo Addo Akpotro Kortibortor Kalabulay Mafia your mother okay! Look at this little frog calling himself Ken to kwasia idiot. Useless akyem dog eating bastards wanna mothers okay. Don't this ken guy look like a new born fro ...
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  • maame 10 years ago

    I just cant believe my senior stoops so low!!! He had it alright until the last paragraph. Who rigged anything? Why is that so called intellectuals keep lying to the Ghanaians and the world at large. Nowhere in the petition b ...
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  • kofi abakah 10 years ago

    He invested so much in nana's campaign so what do you expect him to say

  • cham-cham 10 years ago

    Good article, chairman. You have hit the nail right on the head!! Bravo!!

  • Lt. Col. Obiri Yeboah(rtd) 10 years ago

    This corrupt Akyem mafia kingpin can keep on dreaming! I think honesty is one of virtues he lacks and I'm sure the presidency will forever elude the Kyebi Mafias.

  • Mike Gizo 10 years ago

    It is the first time i have heard this investment guru talking abt Ghana politics. This means is a serious issue cos everything abt this man is serious n unique.

    No wonder real elites cannot support bloodthirsty,thieves n ...
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  • FRIMPONG MENSAH 10 years ago

    ARE U A JUDGE.?

  • Bravo 11 10 years ago

    another horrible akyem mafia.go way u and this your clueless statements.

  • Daavi 10 years ago

    True wake up call for Ghana and Africa. We are just too corrupt , selfish and greedy.

  • Professor of Ignorance 10 years ago

    My good friend I think you are out of your depth why don't you stick your knowledge in banking?

  • AKUA DANSO BABY 10 years ago

    DO U THINK WE ARE COUNTING MONEY HERE?KEEP ON DREAMING. ARE A JUDGE? WHO ARE U? YOU MUST BE MAD TO JUDGE.

  • Abigail 10 years ago

    Sir it is sad for Africans to behave in such a manner ooh Ghana,your main problem you lack leadership although endowed with wealth it is a pity our familial fiber has overcame our sense of Honor.Oh Africa oh Ghana a case in c ...
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  • Bonsu 10 years ago

    We are not all that unintelligent in Ghana. The failure of the EC administration and the Stealing or rigging by Gen Mosquito and Co. led to the bad choice for Ghana. This is why the case should not be left for Ghana to be Win ...
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  • MAHAMA AKONFEM 10 years ago

    GHANA OMANBAPA,GOD BLESS YOU,

  • ANANI MENSAH 10 years ago

    I am surprised people are still doing business with this guy.You have thrown your money to the forever looser you are still hoping the court would make him president,big time looser.

  • don patrico 10 years ago

    It is permited to dream but all dreams are not reality.

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    The NDC don't seem to understand; they still think it's okay to steal the ballot; it's cool to rig elections without resistance. That's why the NDC is telling the world. They say there was no resistance or complains from oppo ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    NDC itself as well as the Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan has admitted that jon mahama became president by mistake and enormous errors. Be that as it may, the SC judges have also narrowed it down to two main categories. Is it true that ...
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  • ABBA 10 years ago

    THE FIRST INVALIDATION OF ELECTION OF A SITTING OF AN AFRICAN PRESIDENT HAS OCCURED IN LA COTE D'IVOIRE. LETS GIVE THEM THE PRAISE. GHANA WILL BE # 2 IF SUCH A CHANGE SHOULD OCCOUR

  • Kwabena 10 years ago

    He is talking about invalidation thru thecourts not by the GUN. Thank you

  • ENOCK K. OFORI U.K 10 years ago

    oh why ar u humiliating Ken Atta,pla we all cant be same so allow him.wht if sc rules in favour of npp,so lets leave it to sc to decide but avoid political attacks.

  • Odikro 10 years ago

    Stupid! Keep dreaming!

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  • Kofi 10 years ago

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  • adam alhassan 10 years ago

    useles ofori atta,or so colled banker

  • jojo 10 years ago

    sorry for you mr dreamer Ken-Ofori Atta. The governor of BOG of finance minister that never was once and will never be. You can't change what God has declared ok.

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    KEN OFORI-ATTA PRAY IN THE SPIRIT DEEPLY, YOU WILL KNOW THAT MAHAMA IS THE WINNER.

  • boygana 10 years ago

    In the first place, this shouldn't have been captured as news let alone a top story. damn!!!

  • Oteng-U.S.A. 10 years ago

    THIS IS THE END OF THE HULLABALOO
    THIS WISE MAN SAID IT ALL. GOOD BLESS YOU. I LOVE PEOPLE LIKE YOU COS YOU SPOKE THE TRUTH-THEY DON'T WANNA HEAR THAT.

  • NPPsupporter 10 years ago

    Nana, Bawumia, Obeshibi-Lamptey, Osafo Manfo and Ken Offie-Atta and these old NPP leadership are destroying the party. many NPP are defecting. We need new blood. Lets have Tarzan to lead with his common sense approach.

  • KING SASRA 10 years ago

    I wish i can meet this Ofori Atta man and speak some sense into his head.
    These guys have made their way into the pockets of the Ghanaian people and yet not satisfied with it. John Mahamah's win over the akyem cocaine boy na ...
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  • ABBAS 10 years ago

    i think the man has dose of oil in his brain

  • Adama 10 years ago

    That guy has right as a Ghanaian to back anyone in the election petition.But to be honest that guy is Akuffo Addo's Cousin and he will want his relative to win so he can have access to more business deals

  • MARY 10 years ago

    This is not Databank's end of year review so stop the analysis of the senseless bawumia misinterpretation of what he perceives. You stand no chance in the supreme court!