Today's newspaper review opens with news from the Daily Graphic on updates of the just ended biometric voter registration exercise. With its caption EC to display provisional register in August, the paper reveals that the Electoral commission (EC) has decided to display the provisional biometric voters register for the 2012 election in August this year, a senior EC official has said. This affords prospective voters the opportunity to check the personal details which they provided during the 40 –day exercise.
News from The Chronicle and The Heritage indicate that the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), has congratulated the National Executive and members of the Convention People's Party (CPP) on successfully organizing their just-ended national delegates' conference. With the headline CODEO lauds CPP, both papers added that CODEO commended in particular "the peaceful and violence-free manner in which the congress was held."
Similarly, members of the tertiary students charter of the Convention People's Party (TESCHART-CPP), Kumasi Polytechnic, have sent a message of congratulations to Dr. Abu Sakara Foster for not only winning the election but offering himself as an instrument to lead CPP in the December polls. The Daily Graphic adds that "We promise to stand solidly behind him and do our best to ensure victory for the party in order to transform the country's fortunes", the group stated.
Away from that, the Heritage informs us that the Greater Accra Regional Inter-Party Dialogue Committee has called on all political parties to abide by the code of conduct for political parties, to ensure free, fair and non-violent election in December. This was disclosed to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra over the weekend by Mr. Prosper Largble, Deputy Greater Accra Regional Director of National Commission for Civic Education, after the second Greater Accra Regional Inter –party dialogue meeting in Accra over the weekend.
The Ghanaian Observer brings to our knowledge that the National Youth for Peace (NYP) has entreated the youth in the country not to allow politicians to use them as tools to foment trouble during the upcoming general elections. The NYP is a social advocacy group with the aim of promoting peace and social responsibility among the youth and the society at large. The paper states this under the headline don't allow Politicians to instigate you-NYP.
We move on to news from the political party environment as The New Statesman reports that Sekou joins NPP. One of the sons' of Ghana's first President, Sekou Nkrumah, is set to join the campaign of the opposition New Patriotic Party as part of his contribution to help kick out the ruling National Democratic Congress from office on December 7, 2012 when Ghana goes to the polls. The paper further reports that Sekou believes the main opposition party cannot win the 2012 elections on a silver platter and therefore needs to involve individuals and group of persons who are not from the Danquah-Busia stock in their campaigns to attract floating voters and members of the NDC who have fallen out with the party, saying, "I think that one would give more confidence to the platform.
The Chronicle also reveals that the flag-bearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), last Friday, declared that the December 7 general elections would present the opportunity for the party and Ghanaians to rediscover their pride and put Ghana once again, on the path of development and prosperity. The NPP presidential candidate stated emphatically that the years of distress and despondency, which had come about as a result of the corrupt administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, led by Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, had brought to Ghanaians would be a thing of the past, stressing that Ghanaians would once again experience a good life and success which God had ordained. The paper quotes him as saying 2012 is our time.
The paper in a similar report states that Ghanaians can't afford four more years under NDC –Dr. Bawumia, adding that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice presidential candidate , Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia , has warned that Ghana's economy would totally collapse if the current administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not voted out in the December elections. He said Ghanaians cannot survive for more years under the leadership of the NDC administration, and it must therefore, be shown the exit in the upcoming elections.
Still on the NPP campaigns, the Daily Graphic reports that the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the December elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has declared that he would not allow the quest for political power to drive him into making promises that he cannot fulfill. He told a forum of the tertiary Education students' confederacy (TESCON) the youth wing of the NPP at Kumasi Polytechnic that the various promises he had made were carefully thought out and analyzed, and the conclusion reached was that they were attainable. The paper quotes him in the headline Promises are attainable-Akufo –Addo
Finally on the NPP, the Daily Graphic informs readers that the NPP parliamentary candidate for the Mfantseman West Constituency in the Central Region, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has described the forthcoming general elections as crucial. He has, therefore, called on members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to work hard to recapture power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Away from the NPP we move on to some updates on the claims on the NDC logo as the member parliament (MP) for Jirapa Constituency in the Upper West Region, Dr. Francis Bawaana Dakura , has asked the former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings,to reflect on her claim to the party's logo by denouncing her intended action. The Daily Graphic captures this in the headline Nana Konadu must reflect on claims and adds that he said the Rawlingses must not see the NDC party as a personal property but as a collectively owned entity bigger than the aspirations and ambitions of any particular individual.
Similarly the Daily Guide indicates that Konadu paid GH¢50 and adds that emerging details about the registration of the red , white , black and green umbrella logo of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) indicate that former First Lady and wife of the NDC founder, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, paid GH¢50 for the Logo. Though officials of the copyright Office, especially the administrator, Yaa Attafua were tight –lipped in giving details about the registration of the NDC logo, a highly –placed source at the office has given vivid details of how Mrs. Rawlings 'grabbed' the umbrella symbol in 2010 by paying the required amount of GH¢50
We close the chapter on today's newspaper review with news from the heritage which indicates that Youth demonstrate against NDC executives. Some concerned youth and Assembly members in the Kwaebibrem District of the Eastern region last Friday May 18,2012 staged a demonstration on the Principal streets of Kade, the district capital and accused the National Democratic Congress(NDC) Eastern regional Executives of racism and tribalism. The demonstrators accused the Eastern Regional Women's organizer of the party, Evelyn Korang of allegedly being behind a plot to unseat the Kwaebibrem District Chief Executive (DCE), Emmanuel Reginald Aboagye Osae.
This daily news review is compiled by African Elections Project (AEP) Media Monitoring Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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