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Election 2020: Bawumia is my running mate – President Akufo-Addo declares

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with his vice, Dr Bawumia President Akufo-Addo has announced that he will be running for President in the 2020 elections with the sitting Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, as his running mate. The President made the disclosure at the Headquarters …

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Akufo Addo picks nomination form to contest election 2020

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     President Akufo Addo has officially begun his move to secure a second term in office. The President picked his nomination form to contest as the NPP’s Presidential candidate in this year’s general elections. Director of research at the Jubilee House, Victor Newman, picked the GH₵20,000- …

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Election 2020: 11% of voters say they won’t vote NDC or NPP

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The increase in non-voters in the country is the highest recorded in Afrobarometer surveys since 2008. People who have declared a ‘no vote’ for either of the two major political parties; National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the impending 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections …

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GFA Election: Kurt Okraku the winner as George Afriyie gets bamboozled

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Two former Executive Committee members will be squaring off in the third round of the 2019 Ghana Football Association election. Dreams FC executive director Kurt Okraku and George Afriyie of Liberty Professional will be in another contest to determine the winner for the vacant Ghana FA Presidential …

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“We’re already over-taxed; Ghanaians won’t take ‘election tax’ lightly” – EC Chair

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah EC Chair, Jean Mensa The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has ruled out the introduction of a tax for elections, saying Ghanaians are already “over-taxed”. The government of Ghana, together with foreign donor partners, funds the work of the election management body. Mrs …

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NDC supporters besiege party offices, burn tyres in protest of MP’s re-election bid

by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Supporters of Masawudu Mubarick have vowed to vote ‘skirt and blouse’ in 2020 elections if the party hierarchy does not rescind its decision to allow him to contest. Some sympathisers of the qualified aspirant in the Asawase constituency primaries of NDC have besieged the party’s office in the Ashanti …

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Court to hear MUSIGA election case on October 14.

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The Accra High Court will on October 14, commence hearing on the suit filed by Ras Caleb Appiah-Levi against the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), over the conduct of National Executive Committee elections. Ras Caleb, who is the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the Union, …

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Asokwa: NPP Youth Reject MP Ahead Of election 2020, Warned Party Executives

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah      Some residents of Asokwa are up in arms against their Member of Parliament calling her “the worst and most unproductive MP the constituency has ever had”. The residents, comprising NPP youth resident in Asokwa have coalesced into a group called; “Asokwa Deserves Better”. They have …

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Election of MMDCEs: EC sets referendum for December 17

Source:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah      The Electoral Commission (EC) has now settled on December 17, this year for the referendum on the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs). Earlier, the EC had fixed December 10, 2019, for the referendum. The Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Dr …

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Ayawaso-West Wuogon by-election: ‘Victims’ sue govt

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah     Twenty – three people who claim to have suffered various forms of injuries during the violence that rocked the Ayawaso- West Wuogon by- election on January 31,2019, have sued the government over what they describe as violations of their fundamental human rights. In a suit …

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