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Presidential Candidates To Meet To Sign Pledge For Peaceful Elections On 1st December

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The seven Presidential candidates contesting the 2016 elections are set to meet on Thursday, just five days before the keenly contested polls and sign an accord pledging their commitment to a peace deal.
According to an agreement reached between the Economic Community on West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations and the major parties, each candidate would append their signature to an accord to work towards a peaceful and open election.

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You Helped Shape The World – President Mahama Pays Tribute To Late Cuban Leader Fidel Castro

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President John Dramani Mahama has paid tribute to the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who passed away late on Friday in his homeland.
Fidel, who ruled the island nation for close to 50 years before retiring in 2008, was a leader who helped shape the world and would be sorely missed, Ghana’s President said of his passing.

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Ghanaians Must Give President Mahama A Second Term – Rex Omar

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Rex Omar

Highlife singer Rex Omar has called on Ghanaians to hand President Mahama a second term in office so he can complete all the marvelous infrastructural projects he has started.
Rex Omar, who endorsed President Mahama in 2012, said his performance within the past four years shows he has done enough to merit another term in office.

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Former NPP Supporter Haruna Attah Claims Nana Akuffo-Addo Once Told Him No Non-Akan Would Ever Lead The Party

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Haruna Attah

Former NPP sympathiser and now Ghana’s ambassador to Namibia, Alhaji Haruna Attah, has hit back at criticism of the President, John Dramani Mahama, for ethnocentric comments he made in the North regarding the NPP.
In a statement, Haruna Attah, who used to be a staunch NPP follower before ‘defecting’ to the NDC, claims Nana Akuffo-Addo is the real tribalistic personality, claiming he once told him in a one-on-one conversation that a non-Akan would never lead the NPP.

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President Mahama Does Not Deserve Four More Years In Charge Of Ghana – Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom

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President John Mahama

The flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has emphatically called on Ghanaians to reject the NDC and hand the mantle of power over to his party in the December polls.
According to Dr Nduom, President Mahama’s handling of the country the last four years prove he is not deserving of another four in charge, listing numerous sectors in which he believes this government has failed.

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STATEMENT: Media Foundation For West Africa Condemns The President's Tribalistic Comments – Demands He Apologise

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The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), a media watchdog and research organisation, have condemned in no uncertain terms tribalistic comments made by the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, over the weekend whilst campaigning in the North.
President Mahama, whilst speaking to supporters, claimed the NPP is a party which is unfriendly to Northerners, adding that he pitied running mate Dr Bawumia, who was only being used to be later dumped by the party.

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President Mahama Claims He Is Not A Magician But He Is Very Good At Making Money Disappear – Mahamudu Bawumia

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Dr Bawumia

The vice Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has hit out at President Mahama, claiming his government is steeped in corruption.
Dr Bawumia, speaking in the Volta Region, said the President recently claimed not to be a magician to be putting money into people’s pockets, but that he is a very good magician when it comes to making Ghana’s  money disappear.

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Prince David Osei Posts Strong Condemnation Of President Mahama's Tribalistic Comments – Cowardly Deletes Post After

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Prince David Osei

Actor Prince David Osei posted a strongly worded condemnation of President Mahama’s tribalistic comments made in the North over the weekend, but has since taken it down in an action quite typical of spineless Ghanaian celebrities.
The President made some ethnically divisive comments which have strongly been condemned in all quarters, and Osei did the right things initially with his post.

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Nana Akuffo-Addo Reacts To President Mahama's Tribal Comments In The North – He Is Willing To Say And Do Anything To Win An Election

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The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, has hit back at President Mahama over some tribal comments he has been making in the North in the course of his campaign there – claiming he is willing to say and do anything so long as it would get him elected.
President Mahama raised more than a few eyebrows over the weekend when comments of his in the North deemed tribalistic surfaced – claiming that he pities Northerners who vote for the NPP as they are being used – and added that Dr Bawumia himself is being used and that he would never be allowed to lead the NPP.

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President Mahama Indulges In Tribal Politics Up North – I Pity Northerners Calling For Change

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John Dramani Mahama

The President, John Dramani Mahama, must be really desperate to hold on to power, because his utterances continue to get more bizarre as elections draw closer.
Within the past few days, he has flown all over the place, sometimes claiming that the hardships we have faced these four years have been foundation laying for the coming prosperity, other times claiming those suffering these hardships are lazy people sitting in their rooms and not taking advantage of the opportunities he has provided.

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NPP Would Never Let Dr Bawumia Lead Their Party – President Mahama

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President John Dramani Mahama has revived his long running feud with NPP vice Presidential candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, saying that the latter would never be allowed to lead the NPP.
The President was speaking in the Upper West region when he made the comments, claiming that the NPP would never allow a Northerner to lead their party.

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I'm Not A Magician To 'Put Money Into People's Pockets' – President Mahama Tells Unemployed Graduates Sitting At Home

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President John Dramani Mahama has told unemployed graduates in the country that he’s not a magician who can just flip a wand to ‘put money into people’s pockets’.
Speaking at the GBC Presidential forum earlier this week, the President said such graduates are not taking advantage of opportunities in the system and that if they sit at home, there’s no magic he has that can help them.

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President Mahama Says His Developmental Agenda The Past Four Years Is 'Unparalleled' In Ghanaian History

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John Dramani Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has described his performance in office, especially as relates to the developments carried all across the country, as unparalleled in the history of Ghana.
The President was speaking to the Dorimon Naa at his palace in the Wa West constituency when he passed his comments.

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PHOTO: Who Left The First Gentleman's Fly Open? We Hope It Was Lordina!

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The President, John Damani Mahama, was a guest at a public forum held by GBC Wednesday night to answer questions concerning his tenure so far and why he deserves a second term in office.
Whilst his speech and everything was as Mahama-esque as one might expect, there was one part of his wardrobe that no-one expected.

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'Any Idiot Can Borrow Money And Build Projects' – Manasseh Azure Awuni On Lauded Circle Interchange

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Joy News presenter Manasseh Azure Awuni has written on the endless praise and adulation the NDC are handing themselves after completion of the new interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle – and his conclusion is a simple one – “any idiot can borrow money and build projects”.
Manasseh argues in a piece tackling the issue that borrowing money to build such projects is not something to pat oneself on the back about, considering that nearly anyone can do that. What takes guts and initiative, he argued, is generating funds to carry out such projects so that a burden does not fall on the coming generations.

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