The National Democratic Congress(NDC) has withdrawn its suit against the Electoral Commission(EC) concerning Techiman South parliamentary election results in the Bono East Region Until the morning of Monday, December 14, 2020, a Writ of Mandamus to compel the EC to re-collate and re-declare the results had been filed at the court. The NDC in a series of press conferences last week, made several claims only to be hit by recorded video evidence of Collation and declaration. The party this morning ran back to the Sunyani High Court to withdraw the case. It is not clear what’s next for them. After the declaration of Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah as the MP-elect for the constituency the NDC and its candidate led blistering attacks on electoral officers, security personnel, and some media men who were also not spared instead resorted to violence and intimidation. Speaking to the development on Accra- Fm, a member of the NDC legal team Baba Jamal revealed that the latest decision by the party was as a result of the fact that they do not have evidence to challenge the case in court. “They started with the collation and stopped when the confusion started so we were unable to sign the documents but the Returning Officers said he reached out to us but we were not around. And we said fine just give us a copy of it whether we signed or not but he refused. Do you think it is with good intention we were refused documents? “You don’t go to court empty-handed. We go with the evidence, we don’t have a summary sheet, declaration form and we don’t know what happened. How do we protest the results in court? Because we don’t have any evidence against the results?” He added. Mynewsgh Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
JUST IN BONGO: I am willing and ready to work with whoever is appointed DCE in….
The Member of Parliament for Bongo Constituency Edward Bawa has told Apexnewsgh.com that he is ever willing and ready to work with whoever is appointed the District Chief Executive (DCE) in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region for the development of the area. However, from the tone and body language of the lawmaker when speaking to Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com he pointed that it has been difficult working with the current District Chief Executive who contested him closely in the just ended December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections “Whoever becomes the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Bongo whether NDC or NPP depending on all the crisis they are going through now, i would genuinely want to work with the person to develop Bongo, because i believes that with togetherness, we can make Bongo a better place.” According to Mr. Bawa, peace is paramount and without peace, the people of Bongo will not see any development in the constituency. He said, aside from peace, during their campaigns across the constituency, what he realized was that people need development and it does not matter the party these people belong to, because they are all Bongo citizens. He told Apexnewsgh.com that is one area he would like to focus on in moving forward as an elected Member of Parliament. “I think the most important thing is to have peace because without peace nothing good will happen. In the course of the campaign we did, we realized that there are a lot of people who need development, is not about who belongs to which political party but they really need development and is one area I would like work on.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
UER: NDC Squeezed my hands at my back and took the victory away from me
The Bongo Constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate for just ended December 7, elections who doubles as the Bongo District Chief Executive(DCE) Ayinbisa Peter has told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com in an exclusive interview that the National Democratic Congress party bigwigs succeeded by squeezing his hands by him and took his victory away. “I think, I set out to win the elections for the first time to make history for my party in that constituency. I think right from 2019 when we finished the primaries, I started campaigning, I used almost 6 months effectively campaigning day and night and everything was on course and I was securing victory for myself and for the party, until the last 2weeks when something strange happened and what happened was that the Member of Parliament upon realizing that he was at the verge of losing the seat, went and met former President John Dramani Mahama and asked him to invite all former appointees coming from the Bongo enclave to come home and support him. Indeed, they met in Accra and he kneeled down and pleaded with them to come and support him. So, all of them, about 2weeks to the election they came home, about 10 prominent former appointees of the past government came home to campaign for him.” He spoke “So, imagine how former Ministers, former chief director, former chairmen, former Parliamentary candidate, ranging from Professor Avea, Hon. Albert Abongo, Lawyer Bawah Dua, Simon Alangde, Alexis Adugdoo, Dr. Atinga, Dr. Rainer Akumperigya, Mr, Aluzeeri and Thomas, Accountant, Ghana Maritime Authority coming home extending resources in every community. Wherever I went and gave Ghc 500.00, Profession Thomas Akabzaa went and gave Ghc1000, Ghc1200 and Ghc1500 not that they came home only with the resources, they came and started intimidating the young men and women, they started insulting and inviting them to their houses telling them they are not fighting for Edward Bawa, they are fighting for the party. So, all of them should team up and work for their party. So definitely, some of them admitted that if I get the seat, it will take the NDC so many years to come back because they know am a developmental oriented person, they know my human relation, so, it will be difficult for them to come back.” He stated “So, is better they fight the horse and when they get home, they can blame the cork (instead of fighting themselves outside). So, they quizzed my hands by me and took the victory away from me.” He lamented “But I am not perturbed, I am going to do my work again, I am going to organize a meeting and do some introspection and find out what the real issues were.” He told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com Meanwhile Edward Bawa won the Bongo Parliamentary constituency by polling 26, 276 votes, as Peter Ayinbisa of the New Patriotic Party manage 17,276 votes. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
BONGO: I even show Ayinbisa his smoothness level at his own… –Edward Bawa
The Member of Parliament for Bongo Constituency Edward Bawa has told Apexnewsgh.com that beating his main contender Peter Ayinbisa of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with almost 10,000 votes at the just ended December 7, 2020 elections, was the biggest victory the NDC has gotten since the 1992 elections. You see I told him earlier that, is not a question of coming to sit on the radio talking big. Indeed, if you want to look at an election since 1992, is one of the biggest victories NDC has gotten in Bongo and I beat him with almost 10,000 votes, this was someone who was going around talking to people and telling them he is picking up the seat. According to Mr. Bawa, he showed his contender Peter Ayinbisa who doubles as the Bongo District Chief Executive (DCE) smooth less level even after taking advantage of all the media houses claiming 500 people defected from NDC to NPP in Lugho which he said the information was false. However, Mr, Bawa said after all false claims, channel out by his contender, he went ahead beat him in his own zone winning 9 polling stations out of 10. “I beat him in his own zone, out of 10 polling stations, I won 9. Even his own polling station where he voted, he beats me with only 4 votes. Some time ago, he went and was touting that 500 people have defected to NPP at Lugho electoral area which was a fallacy. I went to his village, organized a rally. But in his village, Peter could not even organize a big rally. I organized on the 4th and he wanted to organize on the 5th but he couldn’t get people to come out.” Meanwhile Edward won the Bongo Parliamentary constituency with ease by gaining 26, 276 votes, as his close contender Peter Ayinbisa of the New Patriotic Party struggle to get 17,276. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
JUST IN: Here are the three options the NDC are likely take…
The Member of Parliament for Tamale Central and the former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Inusah Fuseini has told Apexnewsgh.com in an exclusive interview that the NDC likely to call for arbitration or form a parallel government. According to the experienced lawmaker, it is clear that the NDC won the December 7 election, the reason why the former President John Dramani Mahama who happened to be their party flag bearer in just ended December 7 election said, that they will not accept the results of the 2020 general election. According to the NDC, the results which were declared by the EC chairperson are fictionalized and that cannot be accepted. But speaking to Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com, in an exclusive interview on Friday, November 11, 2020, Mr. Fuseini who is the outgoing Member of Parliament for Tamale Central said the impunity of the NPP government must stop. “If we don’t fight this one, it will destroy the beauty of our democracy. We are likely to see NDC in court, we are likely to see NDC call for arbitration, we are even likely to see NDC form a parallel government because we are convinced that we won the election.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
Upper East minister asked to resign after NPP’s “historic defeat” to NDC
Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are mounting pressure on the Upper East Regional Minister, Tangoba Abayage, to resign her position after the party suffered what they describe as a record defeat at the hands of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the region at the recent general elections. All the three seats the NPP won in 2016 in the region were taken back by the NDC at the 2020 polls. The NDC won as many as 14 of the 15 parliamentary seats in the region this time, the NPP capturing only 1. Besides, the NPP lost the presidential election to the NDC by over 160,000 votes in the region. The Regional Minister herself vied for the Navrongo Central seat on the NPP ticket but lost to the NDC’s Samson Tangombu Chiragia with a gap that exceeds 11,000 votes. The NPP supporters, who are also members of the Kofi Adda Grassroots for Peace and Development (KAG-PED), lodged the demand for the Regional Minister’s resignation at a news conference convened in the Navrongo Central Constituency this week. “We call on the Regional Minister to do the honourable thing and leave office because out of the fifteen constituencies in the region, NPP won only one seat and lost the previous three seats which were occupied by the party. This is because the Regional Minister, Hon. Tangoba Abayage, couldn’t market the party well in the region, thus the first ever disgraceful defeat of the party in the region,” the supporters said in a statement signed by the Convener, Ing. David Basepe Nyerere Adda, and read by the Spokesperson, Martin Agyua. Adda did not engineer Abayage’s defeat— KAG-PED Two days after she lost the parliamentary election, the Regional Minister reportedly told the press she failed to win the seat because the outgoing Member of Parliament (MP) for Navrongo Central, Joseph Kofi Adda, waged a campaign against her. She is quoted to have said: “I have concrete evidence that he sponsored other candidates against me. I have a video evidence to that. I’m not just talking from the blues. I have evidence that he campaigned vigorously against my candidature. He supported the NDC and PPP candidates and I have evidence.” Addressing the press at the news conference, the pro-Adda group refuted the Regional Minister’s claims, describing them as “absurd allegations”. “If there was somebody to blame for her defeat, then, the blame should go to Hon. Tangoba Abayage, the MCE and the Constituency Executive. Long before parliamentary nominations were due to be opened in the Navrongo Central Constituency for the 2020 general elections, some individuals, who eventually turned out to be members of Hon. Tangoba Abayage’s election campaign camp, began to take a shot at Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda at the time he was the Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation. A lot of abusive language was hurled at Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda and members of his camp after he lost the primaries to Hon. Tangoba Abayage. “All of us became targets for victimisation at the hands of the camp of Hon. Tangoba Abayage. A certain group of media practitioners who were hired to project Hon. Tangoba Abayage ridiculed Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda on air and online after his defeat at the primaries. Throughout the months of mockery and ill-treatment meted out to Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda and his supporters, the parliamentary candidate in the person of Hon. Tangoba Abayage did not see the need to call them to order as though she was very pleased at the things her camp was doing against the members of the same NPP family. Elders of the party attempted to forge reconciliation between the two camps ahead of the main elections but the camp of Hon. Tangoba Abayage would not cooperate,” the group said in its statement. The statement added: “If Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda actually wanted to sabotage Hon. Tangoba Abayage’s campaign, he would have stood independent to thwart her chances; but he did not do so. His hands are clean. Hon. Tangoba Abayage and her team said they did not need Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda and his team to win the seat and they left Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda and his team out of their campaign programme. As a result of these circumstances, Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda spent his time and resources campaigning for the NPP’s parliamentary candidate in the Chiana-Paga Constituency, Hon. Robert Aloo. Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda campaigned for His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the Navrongo Central Constituency and the Chiana-Paga Constituency. Nobody brought down Hon. Tangoba Abayage. She brought herself down with the aid of the Municipal Chief Executive for the Kassena-Nankana Municipality, the NPP’s Chairman for the Navrongo Central Constituency and some others. Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda remains a legend in Navrongo.” By Edward Adeti, Upper East Region, Daily Mail GH Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
Journalist and EC director give different stories on bloated presidential result from Eastern Region
More contradictory reports continue to emerge, further putting the credibility of the 2020 election and the declared results in doubt, especially in the case of the Presidential result declared from the Eastern Region by the Electoral Commission (EC). But the account of a Daily Guide reporter, Alhaji Daniel Bampoe, which is in sharp contrast to that of Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, who is the Director Electoral Services for the Electoral Commission are most striking and leaves many in shell-shocked. While, the journalist said he was informed by the Returning Officer in the Eastern Regional office of the EC, Madam Faith Amedzake that the fresh numbers came from the Ayensuano Constituency of the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region, the EC’s Director, Electoral Services, has explained the increment was due to the addition from the Asuogyaman constituency of the Asuogyaman District. But The Herald’s investigations revealed that President John Mahama of the NDC polled 24,470 of the valid ballots cast in Asuogyaman in the Presidential Election, when President Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP obtained 22,232 votes. The Ghana Union Movement’s candidate, Christian Kwabena Andrew got 22. The vote that changed the result from Eastern Region, therefore, could have not come from the Asuogyaman Constituency as claimed by Dr. Serebour Quaicoe in an interview on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, because John Mahama had won in the Asuogyaman constituency by 2,238 votes more than President Akufo-Addo. Faith Amedzake at a press conference, had announced that President Akufo-Addo got 729, 146, while John Mahama, bagged 454,176 from 1,264,827 votes cast. This result tallied with the numbers on the pink sheet. However, the result mysteriously changed at EC headquarters with certified results declared for candidate Akufo-Addo 752, 061, while John Mahama’s also changed to 470, 999 from 454,176. Meaning the pink sheet as declared at the regional collation center and the certified results published by the EC, are not in agreement. From the certified results, Nana Addo’s votes increased by 22,915, while Mahama’s votes also increased by 16,823. In the end, Nana Addo makes a net gain of 6,092. But two accounts have emerged on the different numbers and Alhaji Bampoe, in a Facebook post took on all those, including the opposition NDC that they were wrong in accusing the Eastern Regional EC boss of changing the figures of the Presidential Election. According to the Daily Guide reporter, the EC Regional boss at the Koforidua Regional Office after addressing the media gave out the certified results of the Presidential results to the NDC and NPP Reps, which President Akufo Addo had; 729,146 and former President Mahama, also had 454,176 votes. But “My checks confirmed that the Eastern Regional NPP Research Officer, Kofi Osei-Adjei later detected that the EC mistakenly didn’t add all the figures of Presidential Results from Ayensuano to both parties”. “When I verify from him, he said he quickly drew the attention of Baba Jamal Konneh the NDC rep about it that a figure of 16,823 has been deducted from that of Mr Mahama and a total of 22,915 also deducted from the President’s votes, but Baba Jamal, said he doesn’t care since it doesn’t affect them”. “The NPP rep then went to the EC who later added the Ayensuano missing figures to both parties, hence issuing new certified results. The NDC reps were not there to sign the new certified results. This makes the initially certified results given to the parties a total of 1,264,872 votes as the certify votes from the Region”. Initially, President Akufo Addo, had 729,146 votes, but after the Ayensuano own of 22,915 was added it jumps to 752, 061 same as the 16, 823 verses was added to that of the NDC and it jumps from 454,176 to 470,999. So if the NDC is claiming that the EC has added some figures to that of President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo – Addo, after checking from the EC and the NPP rep, this is what I gathered with the attached proves”. Alhaji Bampoe, was reacting to a Facebook post by Kevor Mark-Oliver, the Eastern Regional NDC Secretary that the EC had changed figures, insisting that the Regional EC officials had confirmed to – Daily Guide reporter- that the Ayensuano figures change the total valid votes. Kevor Mark-Oliver had written “About the Eastern Region this is what happened. All collation was completed and agents including NDC signed at 6.45pm. Copies were given to the parties (Our copy displayed). Same was announced (in the video displayed). This result gave NPP 58%, NDC 37% and others 5%. After everybody was gone, The EC fax a new declaration sheet signed at 9.37pm, by only NPP, GUM and PPP to Accra (also displayed here) that sorts to increase each party’s vote but with greater increase for the NPP. You see the Mess the EC is plunging all of us into?? Attached is a video evidence of the declaration by the EC returning officer, the original pink sheet and the fake pink sheet the EC is now using”. But according to Alhaji Bampoe, Baba Jamal Konneh of the NDC who had left the Eastern Regional EC office in Koforidua after the initial declaration of the result by the Regional boss, was given the certify results and left. But Kevor Mark-Oliver, quickly fired back at Alhaji Bampoe’s claim saying “Outright cover-up!! And the media didn’t know about it? We were all there when all 33 constituencies were announced and collated!! How did Ayensuano get missing? This clever way of rigging won’t help anybody!! The Herald noted that the second result declared by the EC, had signatures of Nana Oteng Akuffo-Akoto, signing as the Polling agent for Nana Akufo-Addo, while Yeboah Benjamin signed for Christian Kwabena Andrew of GUM with one Amos Nkanssah, who appended his signature for and on behalf of Bridgett Dzogbenuku of the PPP. All other Presidential candidates, including John Dramani Mahama, had their portions unsigned on the new form containing the different result. Interestingly, the handwritings of the names of the fresh results
All Options Are On The Table, John Mahama Has Not Encouraged Anyone To Go Onto Street—Inusah Fuseini
The outgoing Member of Parliament for Tamale Central Hon. Inusah Fuseini has told Apexnewsgh.com in an exclusive interview that all options are on the table for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to regain the will of the people. “All options are on the table, we are particularly presently reviewing all the pink sheets, we are reviewing all the documented instruction of the Electoral Laws of this country, and those doing that are our lawyers and they will advise on the appropriate cause of action. Like I have said and I would say again to you, that nobody, and I repeat nobody has a duty to accept the results or outcome of a flawed election. So, it is within our right to reject the results. Recent happenings at the Electoral Commission even vindicates our position. The Electoral Commission publicly declared Nana Akufo Addo President 2 days ago, and in less than 24 hours, the figures that were the subject matter of the declaration were changed and the figures keep changing at the Electoral Commission. The EC in the first correction they did to the figures they publicly announced as figures for the election, they said that they had inadvertently used. How can a commission set up for the purposes of collating election results come out with that excuse of inadvertent?” He believes, something fundamentally wrong is happening to the country’s electoral processes. And it is in the interest of all democratically-minded persons in the country to audit the outcome of the results to find them through the will of the people. “If we do an audit of the outcome of the result, it will give us the realistic and accurate appreciation of where and will of the people is moving towards, it will also give us an accurate and realistic figure of how the region voted because every vote counts.” Responding to the protest and burning of tyres witnessed in some parts of the country by some party supporters and some aggrieved followers of John Dramani Mahama, Mr. Fuseini said, John Dramani Mahama has not sanctioned anyone to go onto curse any havoc because he believes in the country constitutional mandate. “John Dramani Mahama made it clear, he stated categorically that the party will not accept the results, he did not go ahead to declare himself president of the country, because he is a law-abiding citizen of this country. He said all the options are on the table, he only said that we are reviewing the outcome of the elections and in due course, we will take action. John Dramani Mahama has not encouraged, motivated, or asked people to go onto the street and demonstrate, he has not said that. Mind you, it is the outcome of the presidential as well as some constituencies in the parliamentary elections that are at stake. Even though I am not the official spokesperson for John Dramani Mahama, I can tell you as a matter of fact that John Dramani Mahama has not asked people to go onto the street.” However, he pointed that the reason why the NDC will not accept the results declared, is because they have wasted time, energy, and resources, but only the for EC to procured the election for President Nana Akufo Addo he told Apexnewsgh.com Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
Jean Mensa has disgraced women – Hon. Sumaya Ligbi
The North East Regional Women Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sumaya Ligbi has led a peaceful demonstration to the office of the Electoral Commission in the West Mamprusi Municipal to press home their demand after what the women in the area described as a twist of the Ghanaian right. They were captured holding placards with inscription like “Ghana is Democratic” We need peace” etc. The women who came out in their numbers with branded NDC party paraphernalia could not hide their feeling. (Attach Video) The Regional women Organizer in an interview with Apexnewsgh.com expressed frustration at the events as she requested each and every one with evidence to present it as they await hearing from the national head office on the next line of action that would be taken. She added, that the NDC has won the heart of Ghanaians and this was demonstrated in the recent election in the North East Region. Adding, that a whole cabinet minister with all the resources at her disposal and with all the powers was kicked out, whiles another Minister also in charge of the North East Region has also been crushed in the Bunkurugu constituency. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Saeed Jafar Tarimbiya Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
President Akufo Addo receives congratulatory messages as opposition battles with EC
The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost the 2020 general election, according to the official result declared by Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Madam Jane Mensah. Despite the official results declared, the NDC and its flag bearer John Dramani Mahama said, they will not accept the result, because the result does not tally with what they collated across the 16 regions of the Republic of Ghana. Since after the result declaration, supporters of the opposition John Dramani Mahama and NDC have been captured in most of the regions protesting in a different dimension, some were seen block roads and burning tyres, some were captured making a violent pronouncement of how they would kill people that blocked their ways as they protest and demand for justice from the Electoral Commission. However, despite all these hullabaloos across the country, leaders and other heads of states across the African continents, have been pouring their congratulatory messages to the President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who according to the EC emerged victorious by polling 6,730,413 representing 51.595% while his main contender John Mahama of the NDC had 6,214,889 representing 47.366%. President Mahamudu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, President Uhuru Kenyatta has congratulated President Nana Akufo-Addo following his re-election for a second term in office, ODM leader Raila Odinga, and the newly elected U.S President Joe Biden have all extended their congratulatory messages. Below are some of the congratulatory messages captured on social media handles of these personalities by Apexnewsgh.com. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications









