Barely a week to the December
7, 2016 general elections, issues of bribery allegations against the incumbent
National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate by the opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP) dominated headlines of various news media for today.
The Daily Guide has the caption “NPP
accuses Mahama over cash, V8”. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused
President John Dramani Mahama and his
brother Ibrahim Mahama of attempting to
influence its Northern Regional chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu with cash and vehicle for him to smear the
party’s flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo. Mr. Bugri Naabu was said to have
been offered GH 500,000 and a brand new Mitsubishi Pajero four –wheel drive by
the President sometime in October this year. Mustapha Abdul Hamid, spokesman
for the NPP presidential candidate, made the disclosures at a press conference
at the party’s headquarters in Accra yesterday.
The Ghanaian Times with the headline “NO ‘all-die-be-die’… elections
will be peaceful – President Mahama” says President John Dramani
Mahama has expressed optimism that next week’s general elections will be peaceful, saying God will
prevent ‘all-be-die’’ or any form of violence to befall the country. Addressing
a durbar of chiefs and people of Assin Bereku in the Central Region, as part of
his campaign tour. He said in Akan: ‘God‘s hands are upon Ghana and will not allow
any chaos or all-die-be-die to occur in Ghana. He said most
often during elections
some people created fear
among the electorate that there would
be chaos in the country, but each time , the electoral process was successful and so would it be this year.
Today
also
carries the headline “Mahama desperate
for power as he commissions uncompleted Assembly building”. The paper
states that with few days
to the December 7 polls, it is becoming
increasingly clear that
President John Dramani
Mahama, who is also the presidential candidate of the governing
National Democratic Congress
(NDC) is overly desperate to retain power. The desperation by the
President has manifested itself glaringly
in his continuous haste to
commission uncompleted state projects
while on his campaign
trail all in the name to get votes and win the presidential election. The latest yet-to-be
completed state project which was expected to be commissioned by the President
yesterday was the Effutu Municipal Assembly in the Effutu constituency in the
Central Region.
“Vote for Ghana to preserve peace
…. 3 leaders urge voters” is a headline in the Daily Graphic. The paper reports that against the
background of rising tension in the run-up to the
December 7 general election, two
religious leaders and a traditional ruler
have made separate appeals to Ghanaians to uphold the peace and
maintain the sanctity of the
elections, irrespective of
their political affiliations . The
leaders are President of the Ghana
Catholic Bishops Conference, the Most Rev. Philip Naameh; the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman
Sharubutu, and the President of the National House of Chiefs (NHC), Togbe Afede XIV
We conclude today’s
newspaper review with a story in the Ghanaian
Observer “EC to kick start rigging plot with special voting”. According
to story the opposition New Patriotic Party’s National Youth Organizer, Sammy
Awuku, has alleged that the upcoming special voting on December 1, marks the
beginning of the Electoral Commission’s grand ploy to rig elections, in favor
of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to him, some
eligible voter names have been deleted on the special voting list. “The special
voter’s list is a source of worry to us as a political party because several
voting names have been deleted.” Sammy Awuku was addressing the NPP Northern
Regional Youth League in Tamale, as part of his nationwide campaign tour.
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