A founding member of the New Patriotic Party Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe says the NPP has no chance of winning the November elections with a tattered front.
The former military officer and medical doctor said the NPP has no message to sell to Ghanaians with just a few months to elections and wonders how the flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo can lead the party to wrestle power from the ruling NDC.
Mohammed Nazir Nortei Alema, the Ghanaian graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) who joined terrorist group ISIS in August 2015 has reportedly been killed.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has expressed profound shock and sadness at the demise of Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, former Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey died in the early hours of Sunday in a London hospital where he had gone for treatment.
Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey, played an integral part in former President’s Kufuor’s victory in 2001, as his Election Campaign Manager.
The late former chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey died of leukemia.
Former General Secretary, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie revealed this to Adom TV's' Frank Owusu in an exclusive interview Sunday.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has reminded Ghanaians that politics is not a do-or-die affair but a means for the electorate to express their divergent views towards the transformation of the country.
Nkrumahist parties Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) have paid tribute to former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, who passed away on Sunday.
He passed on at a London hospital after battling a long ailment.
In a tribute written on behalf of his party, Professor Edmund Delle, the National Chairman of the CPP, said the former minister of state “understood multiparty democracy and that explains the cooperation and cordial relations between the CPP and NPP during his days as Minister of Information, Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City, Chief of Staff, Campaign Manager and National Chairman of the NPP”.
Former President John Agyekum Kufour has said, although he has not been heard in public discussing NPP’s internal wrangling, his leadership has helped solved some ‘serious’ issues in the party.
According to him – it’s unhealthy to bring party issues into the media front when it can be solved internally and amicably.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says the need for a change in government during the upcoming November general elections is much more crucial for Ghanaians than it was in the year 2000.
According to him, what has made the need for change very pressing is the fact that despite the availability of resources such as the oil find in commercial quantities, the economy remains weak due to the mismanagement of the Mahama led government.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has entreated Ghanaian electorates to vote back the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the honour his two-time campaign manager, Jake Otankah Obetsebi Lamptey, who passed away in a London hospital in the early hours of Sunday.
................When people in government reduce their faculties to mere balderdash, the nation can be assured of the worst form of suffering in an environment of 'Life for the want of Death'. There is a crisis looming in the air, very much like that of Greece and other turbulent economies worldwide, yet an unbudging bunch of 'I-know-it-all politicians' exhibit nonchalance towards the suffering of the masses.
Therefore, it is not suprising that Ghanaians are treated so insultingly by their own leaders as to make it seem like the nation is their property, appointing prodigal sons, heartless and unethical. The pertinent issues at stake are a constant dilemma. Infrastructure remains a nightmare resulting in deaths easily avoidable by the implementation of an honest and pragmatic sense of direction.
Roads have transformed into treacherous death traps. The bad maintenance culture that the nation has adopted is haunting road users. No one is innocent in this regard otherwise why would roads constructed barely a decade ago become deplorable? The inability of users and the general public to voice out their concerns have relegated our will to survive in dignity to unpleasant levels.
All those who do not speak out against injustice, corruption, bad maintenance culture, and countless social vices that have become our bane, are culpable. After all, is it not a fact that the people are the Boss, and the government the Employee? Why must it be allowed to be the vice versa?
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate for the 2016 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the NPP is ever ready to ensure there are peaceful elections at all times, especially this year, provided those responsible for organising the elections organise them in a free and fair manner.
Nana Akufo-Addo said this when he addressed the people of Suma Ahenkro on the occasion of their Akwantu Kese festival over the weekend at the Jaman North District in the Brong Ahafo Region.
According to him, the NPP has always demonstrated its resolve for peaceful elections, citing 2012 when the party went to court to defend its right even in the face of clear rigging and provocation as an example.
This, he said, is because the New Patriotic Party is a party that believes in the rule of law. He, however, warned that this year’s election would only be peaceful if those in charge organised it in a free and fair manner so that the outcome would be accepted by all parties.
Nana Addo was accompanied by Alan Kyerematen, a former presidential aspirant of the party, Otiko Afisa Djaba, the party’s National Women’s Organiser, and some national and regional executives.
He received a rousing welcome as he went round to greet the chiefs and people of the area at the durbar grounds. Police and other security personnel on the grounds found it difficult to control the crowd as everybody wanted to catch a glimpse of him or shake hands with him.
Judgement debts are no the order of the day, aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for the Klottey Korle Constituency, Eva Lokko, has said.
According to her, irresponsible management of the country by incompetent leaders has robbed the country of the needed development.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says the time spent by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on solving its internal problems will not affect its ability to win the 2016 election.
In an exclusive interview with Joy News’ Beatrice Adu, the former head of state said the NPP is ready for this year’s polls.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has formally confirmed the death of its former party Chairman and Election Campaign Manager, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, who passed away on Sunday dawn in London.
In a statement signed by John Boadu, the party’s acting General Secretary, the NPP expressed its condolences to the family of the late Obetsebi Lamptey, who they described as “a true son of the Nation”.
“Mr. Obetsebi Lamptey did not only serve his party selflessly and diligently, but also helped in nation building,” the statement added. The NPP has also requested that all party flags be flown at half mast in honor of the memory of their former party chairman.
“As we mourn this great man of our party and country, we request that all party flags-national, regional, constituency and polling stations offices- fly at half mast.”
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has expressed profound shock and sadness at the demise of Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, former Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey died in the early hours of Sunday in a London hospital where he had gone for treatment.
The former first family, former president Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings have expressed their deepest condolences to the family of the late Jake Obetsebi Lamptey.
PoliticianAs a professional communicator, he was given the task of working on the identity of the party. He worked with Dan Quaye, an artist, to design the NPP flag, colours, symbols and other visual identity items.As first chairman of the publicity committee, he handled publicity and media for presidential candidate Professor Adu Boahen during the 1992 campaign. As was the practice in those early difficult times when party members sacrificed to fund party activities, Jake paid for much of the publicity campaign activities from his own pocket and resources.SacrificesSacrificing for the party is not something that started after 2000. Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey contested the national chairmanship in 1995, and came second to the late Peter Ala Adjetey.As Chairman of the Communications Committee, he founded the NPP News with Ferdinand Ayim. The newspaper was able to make a small contribution to party overheads.In 1997, he successfully contested the Regional Chairmanship of Greater Accra. He was re-elected twice more, serving a total of three terms as regional chairman before stepping down in 2005. During his chairmanship, the party, for the first time in the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition, since 1947, became the majority party in Greater Accra, as evident in winning the Accra Central (Odododiodoo) and Osu (Klottey Korle) seats.For the 2000 elections, he was appointed the campaign manager for the J.A.Kufuor.Kufuor campaign.Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey worked hard on the presentation of the candidate and the party and also worked hard to reduce the level of manipulation at the polling station. He introduced the innovation of “voters tally sheet” and heightened awareness that the NPP would put itself into position to be able to ensure that correct results were declared.
Born on February 4, 1946 in Accra, Ghana, the second son of Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey (a prominent lawyer and politician) and his Dutch wife Margaretha, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey had his primary education in Accra, before travelling to England to further his education.
In 1966, he began work as a radio and TV scriptwriter, commentator and presenter at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). In 1969, he joined Lintas West Africa, an advertising firm, as an account executive and radio and television producer.
The former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Jake Obetsebi Lamptey is dead. Reports indicate that he died on early Sunday morning in London.
Sources within the party confirmed the news to citifmonline.com. Bryn Acheamong, a former aide to Jake Obetsebi Lamptey posted on his Facebook wall: “Ghana has lost one fine statesman. RIP.”
Information reaching ultimate1069.com indicates that the captain of the Black Stars Asamoah Gyan has allegedly slapped a worker of Alisa hotel in Accra.
The incident it is gathered occurred when the Black Stars of Ghana were checking in at the hotel ahead of their 2017 AFCON qualifier game with Mozambique on Thursday.
Founder of the National Democratic Congress, and former President Jerry John Rawlings, has sought to explain the reasons for the fallout in his relationship with the late President Atta Mills, suggesting the late law professor by his actions undermined him and his family.
In an interview with Accra-based GHOne TV, the former President, who became an avowed critic of the late President until his shocking demise, explained that he had issues with him [Atta Mills] because the late President appointed officials who undermined him and his family.
A Former Interior Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for Yendi constituency in the Northern Region Malik Alhassan Yakubu has described the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Jake Otanka Obetsebi Lamptey as a Marshall in the field.He indicates that the demised party stalwart though was a Christian had a Muslim heart to the extent that Muslims brothers including him tried convincing him to convert into Islam.According to him, he worked tirelessly to ensure that his contributions as head of communications, inured to the benefit of the party in its formative years indicating that his death is a big loss to Danquah-Busia-Dombo Tradition.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says the need for a change in government during the upcoming November general elections is much more crucial for Ghanaians than it was in the year 2000.
According to him, what has made the need for change very pressing is the fact that despite the availability of resources such as the oil find in commercial quantities, the economy remains weak due to the mismanagement of the Mahama led government.
