Making news in most headlines of the newspapers today is the nomination of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana as Vice President. The Ghanaian Times has its headline captured Amissah Arthur is Vice President. So is the headline of The New Crusading Guide, Amissah Arthur gets the nod…As President Mahama 'Picks Mills, Man'.
This decision, we are told was after an intense consultations and evaluation of a number of personalities shortlisted for the post, which became vacant following the President Mahama's elevation after the sudden demise of President Mills last Tuesday. The Nomination by was in fulfillment of an urgent constitutional mandate in Article 60(6) which states as follows: The Vice President shall, Upon assuming office as president under clause (6) of this article, nominate a person to the office of the Vice-president subject to the approval by parliament.
Similarly are headlines of the Chronicle, Daily Guide, Daily Graphic and the New Statesman with their respective headlines as Amissah-Arthur is new Veep, Amissah Arthur Is Veep, Mahama selects Amissah- Arthur, Still team "B".
From the Daily Guide newspaper, during the one week celebration of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, Mahama Launches Campaign @ Funeral seizing the opportunity to market himself and his political ambition. At a well attended celebration at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra, President Mahama sought to woo the youth into voting for him in the upcoming elections since he had now become the flag bearer of the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC).
However, in the New Statesman, some political analysis and social commentators believes, Mahama' biggest challenge is unity in NDC because there were perceived divisions in the ruling party which subsequently led to some leading members leaving the NDC to form the National Democratic Party, with Nii Armah Josiah Ayeh, former General Secretary of NDC, as its interim National Chairman.
From the same newspaper, NPP organizer: Mahama poses no threat to us, as Deputy Organizer of the New Juabeng North constituency of the New Patriotic Party, Ernest Nyarko, rejects claim from some quarters that the assumption of office by John Dramani Mahama as the President of Ghana poses a threat to the party's determination to return to the corridors of power in the December elections. According to him President Mahama carries all the "baggage" of the National Democratic Congress government under the presidency of late Prof, John Evans Atta Mills because he was an integral part of the failure administration.
Similarly from the Ghanaian Observer Our Campaign is Not Reliant on NDC Candidate-NPP says the New Patriotic party, stating emphatically that the demise of Prof. John Atta Mills will not change their campaign strategy. It was being speculated that Mills' death will bring about change in the party's strategy since most of their campaign messages were focused on the late president. Same story was also reported by the New Statesman as Mustapha: NDC's records are corruption, incompetence, joblessness.
Meanwhile in the Daily Guide newspaper, page 10, Atiwa NPP Outdoors Campaign Van. The Atiwa Constituency of the New Patriotic Party outdoored a new 12 seater Hyundai mini bus procured at the cost of 16,500 Ghana Cedis. It will be used by party executives and activists in the constituency for campaign activities in preparation for the December general elections.
From the same page, Rift In Binduri NDC, we are informed that members of the Binduri National Democratic Congress (NDC) are divided over who becomes the Chief Executive of the newly created Binduri District.
Again from the Daily Guide Political parties have been advised to Take Women Issue Serious, by training more women to take up leadership positions in order to increase their representation in governance. The parties were urged to break the culture of disparity and make participation in politics more attractive by taking stringent action against persons who go contrary to the political party code of conduct.
We conclude today's newspaper review with a peace message, Promote issue based campaign – media, politicians urged. From the story, Participants at a workshop on ways to have peaceful election have called on media organizations to spearhead thorough and investigative coverage of the 2012 elections as part of the moves to set the tone for intelligent and issue- based political discussions.
They also urged politicians, especially the Presidential and Parliamentary aspirants to be at the forefront of promoting tolerance and peace both in words and in deeds and inspire their followers to do same.
This daily news review is compiled by African Elections Project (AEP) Media Monitoring Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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