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General news for Saturday, October 24, 2020
Source: Peace FM
2020-10-24
Kwesi Pratt Jnr, editor-in-chief of Insight newspaper
Qualified political parties participating in the December 7 general election have selected the position of their presidential candidates on the ballot for the upcoming elections.
The event was held on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters in Accra.
Out of seventeen (17) candidates, only twelve made the cut.
Among them are President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (PNP), former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Christian Kwabena Andrews (Ghana Trade Union Movement), Brigitte Akosua Dzogbenuku (Party of the Progressive Peoples), Akua Donkor (Ghana Freedom Party), Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (National Democratic Party), Hassan Ayariga (All Peoples Congress), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet (People’s Convention Party), Henry Herbert Lartey (Great Consolidated People’s Party), Percival Kofi Akpaloo (Liberal Ghana Party), David Asibi Ayindenaba Apasera (National People’s Congress) and an independent candidate, Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker.
The New Patriotic Party chose the first position on the ballot, while the largest opposition Democratic National Congress chose position number two (2) for their party.
The Ghana Trade Union Movement ranked third, the Convention People’s Party ranked fourth, the Ghana Freedom Party ranked fifth, the Great Consolidated People’s Party ranked sixth, the All Peoples Congress ranked seventh , the Liberal Party of Ghana, the National People’s Congress, the Progressive People’s Party, the National Democratic Party and the independent candidate Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker will occupy the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth respectively on the ballot.
The parties, mainly the PNP and NDC, have begun to campaign in line with the positioning of their candidates on the ballot.
The NDC says that its position number 2 signifies the second coming of its candidate and former president, John Dramani Mahama and the PNP also believes that the number 1 means that its candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, has already been declared the winner before the elections. .
But for seasoned journalist Kwesi Pratt, these are all superstitious beliefs that should not be taken into account.
According to him, being number 1 or 2 on the ballot means nothing because voting is based on which candidate voters trust to improve their lives.
Speaking on Friday’s “Kokrokoo” on Peace FM, he questioned the logic of running such campaigns.
” Do we rule with superstition? If the leaders we are voting for are superstitious, we are dead. Then we will not progress. In fact, if we are not careful, we will regress from where we are now. We have held elections in Ghana where someone has used number 3 to win, someone has been number 1 or number 2 and lost the election before. What is this all about (superstition)? ”
For him, “what the Ghanaians are looking for in these next elections, first of all, is a good life. May the person to whom we will give the power work hard so that we have good water to drink, work hard to improve our educational system, create jobs for youth, fix our roads to ensure that the food crops of the interior reach the cities to allow us to buy and consume.This election is one of peace, so that there is peace in our nation and reduce the rate of armed robbery and so on. We are going to cast a good vote to ensure a change in our gold that we export and not obtain better returns. That is why we are going to vote in the elections; not number 1, number 2, number four and number 10. “
“What is the meaning of all this number 1, number 2, number 10 and number 11?” He questioned.
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