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December 13, 2019
Politics
The New Patriotic Party has slammed the opposition National Democratic Congress for double standards after the NDC accused the governing party of running a “family and friends” government.
A former Energy Minister and leading member of the New Patriotic Party, Boakye Agyarko, has charged women’s groups in the NPP to take up the task of leading the party’s campaign to retain power in the 2020 general election.
As the debate on the 2019 Afrobarometer report on corruption perception rages, Daily Statesman sources in the opposition National Democratic Congress say many key members of the party are worried about the inability of their presidential candidate “to frontally join the corruption debate as President Akufo-Addo has been forcefully defending his incorruptible credentials”.
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The MP for Asutifi South and former Minister of Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, appears to have resumed the NDC’s dirty politics of inciting Northerners against the NPP, claiming that they have no future in the governing party.
Twenty-one officials of the John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government are being prosecuted for their involvement in various alleged acts of corruption and causing financial loss the state, involving a total sum of roughly GHC772 million.
The Daily Statesman has uncovered what actually motivated Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the general secretary of the National Democratic Congress, to begin his lobbying to be selected as running mate for the party in the 2020 general elections.
The decision by the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress to clear Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, the Minority Chief Whip, and select him to contest the 2020 parliamentary elections on the party’s ticket unopposed, has sparked fire in the Garden City.
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