His second position on the ballot could represent Mahama’s ‘second loss’

Politics of Friday October 23, 2020

Source: Peace FM

2020-10-23

The various political parties running for the December 7 elections have chosen the positions of their presidential candidates on the ballot for the upcoming general elections.

The candidates are President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Christian Kwabena Andrews (Trade Union Movement of Ghana), 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 (Ghana Liberal Party), David Asibi Ayindenaba Apasera (National People’s Congress) and an independent candidate, Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker.

The ruling New Patriotic Party (PNP) elected the first position on the ballot.

The Democratic National Congress represented by the party’s undersecretary general, Mr. Peter Boamah Otukonor, also selected the number two (2) seat for his 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 People’s Congress ranked seventh, the Ghana Liberal Party, National People’s Congress, Progressive People’s Party, National Democratic Party and Independent candidate Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker will rank eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth respectively on the ballot.

The NDC is running for its second position on the ballot, using it to campaign for its presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama.

The party says that the second position signifies the second coming of John Mahama.

John Mahama seeks Ghanaians’ votes to return to power after his defeat in the 2016 elections.

But seasoned journalist Kweku Baako, speaking on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo,” has challenged the NDC’s “second coming of John Mahama” political mantra.

In a short and curt reply to the NDC, he said “it could represent a second defeat.”