Sentences with phrase «as flag bearer»

Reports that HTC would be reconfiguring their popular Android based One M8 for Windows Phone have been circulating for months with Verizon as the flag bearer, but details of the device — and release — are now coming into focus.

In another development, Michael Quaye reports from Wa that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has suspended his campaign for re-election as flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party to enable party officials to concentrate on the voter registration exercise being conducted by the Electoral Commission.

The statement read,» All the persons that fall in the various categories making up the governorship primary had already participated in the Congress that produced Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) as the flag bearer of the party.

If I don't win the PDP primaries, I would support whoever emerges as the flag bearer.

The lawmaker, who submitted his letter of intention last week, said «I want to assure that I am ready to back or support whoever emerged as the flag bearer of our great party in the primary exercise.»

I will give a comprehensive reaction at the end of the election and whoever emerges as the flag bearer of the party will be given maximum support from other aspirants.

Adding that party was the first to choose a date for its primaries and conveyed same to INEC, Orbih noted that the party would ensure that hitch - free and fair primaries is being conducted where the most popular aspirant would emerge as its flag bearer in the state.

According to him, Akufo - Addo had several consultations after he was rejected at the polls in 2012 about his chances of leading the NPP as its flag bearer in the 2016 elections and was told to drop his ambition but he arrogantly rubbished it.

That was in 2007, as the flag bearer of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) against the late President Musa Yar» Adua of PDP.

Hon. J.H. Mensah, Senior Minister in the Kufuor government, admonished the 17 NPP flag bearer hopefuls haggling to succeed the ex - president to «check themselves» as the flag bearer contest was not a beauty pageant».

The NDC is going into the polls with President John Mahama as its flag bearer.

He has often cautioned in his posts that it will not be a good idea for the leadership of the party to impose him on its members as flag bearer for election 2020.

Team USA chose track and field's Bryshon Nellum to represent the delegation as the flag bearer in the 2012 London Olympics Closing Ceremony.

Not exact matches

Author Isabel Allende discusses her role as a flag - bearer during the Winter Olympics in 2006, the first time that only women would carry the Olympic flag.

To me the most moving moment in the worship of the midshipmen came when, at the close of the service, the color - bearers entered the chancel to get the flags — the flag of the corps and the flag of the nation — and then turned in solemn silence toward the altar and dipped the colors before the cross, as though to say that above all earthly devotions there is in this universe One to whom our supreme loyalty belongs, and that the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

And I was thrilled to see one of my heroes, Leymah Gbowee, chosen as a flag - bearer in the opening ceremonies!

As one of the last remaining «flag - bearers» in Italian football, many within the game have been critical of Roma's treatment of the club icon.

They look toward the far side of the court, where Bandy adds flag bearer to his ever - expanding résumé as he holds the stars and stripes upright.

A thoroughly deserved title is their's and as we stand they are most definitely the flag bearers for Northern Hemisphere international rugby.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are anointed by the economic and political powers of the region (the money itself actually seems to come from the German government, but that is another matter altogether) as the talismans and flag bearers of the league and to some extent the country itself.

As part of her strategy to see an Akufo - Addo presidency, Nana Konadu early this year dispatched her micromanaged Friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings (FONKAR) to pledge allegiance and unwavering support for the three - time NPP flag bearer.

Adeyeye, who, a few days ago resigned his position as the Pro-Chancellor of Ekiti State University in protest, after the state chapter of the party dashed his hopes and adopted Governor Ayodele Fayose's deputy as the party's flag bearer said, «the governor and myself are friends and I believe reason will prevail and we cooperate together,» and then «fight for next year's election, and win by the grace of God.»

Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's agriculture in a future Akufo - Addo government, the three - time flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said: «As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.&raquAs far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.&raquas this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.»

The founder and leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has criticised the decision of the 2016 flag bearer of the People's National Congress (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama, to accept an appointment as an Ambassador - at - Large in the Nana Akufo - Addo government.

Ndume described the APC flag bearer in the Osun West by - election as a symbol of good governance whose wealth of experience had added much value to the senate while he represented his people in the last dispensation.

Some personalities close to the NPP flag - bearer are at sea as to why he will be happy if even President Mills is sick and going for treatment in the United Sates of America since sickness is a natural phenomenon that occurs to any and everybody, especially when the person is no longer young.

President John Mahama will not hand over power to anyone but himself, Montie FM's Pampaso host Salifu Maase, alias Mugabe, has said, and referred to the flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo, as an «abomination» not worth being president of Ghana.

The vows seemed significant in many ways as two of the party's flag bearers in the 2008 and 2012 elections — Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom and Dr Foster Abu Sakara have quit the party, with Dr Nduom forming his own party, the Progressive People's Party.

The twice defeated flag - bearer of the NPP, Akufo - Addo, who claims to be a lawyer and if true, should know better, saw the Woyome case as an issue he could anchor his tottering campaign to for victory in the 2012 elections..

Koku lamented that in today's NPP under Nana Addo, anyone who shares his opinion against the flag bearer is evil and that can not qualify as a fiber to humility in any sense of the word.

Responding to a question about whether Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, an economist and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana, really had intended responding to the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana's several claims on the economy, as had circulated on social media days after the lecture, Mrs Bawa Mogtari said: «I'm sure you heard the vice president say clearly that any individual, genuine economist could have done a much better job than the flag bearer or the acting flag bearer of the NPP».

They tell me they do not get invitations anymore from the media team of the NPP flag bearer and that all they get are press releases and sound bites leaving them with no choice but to use it as it is.

As the process for the selection of the party flag bearer in the July 8 by - election within the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), in Osun West...

As the process for the selection of the party flag bearer in the July 8 by - election within the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), in Osun West Senatorial District continues, one of the two aspirants, Senator Mudashir Hussein has been allegedly disqualified.

Oseloka H. Obaze's emergence as the Peoples» Democratic People (PDP) flag bearer in Anambra was a surprise.

He said the former Governor who was the Kano State flag bearer of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in 2011 elections pledged to return the balance of N60m as soon as possible.

The APC flag bearer, after he was disqualified by the Electoral Commission from participating in the December polls as a presidential aspirant angrily said he had spent $ 6million on his campaign vehicles alone and, therefore, accused the EC of being unfair to him.

According Pastor KwabenaOwusuAgyei, a curse would befall Ghana if the former New Patriotic Party's (NPP) flag bearer's investiture comes off as planned because God does not approve of his electoral victory.

According to him, it is regrettable and disheartening that some people especially disgruntled politicians are still spreading poisonous rumours to gain cheap political gains over the choice of Senator Mudashir Husain as the APC flag bearer.

Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu has emerged as Peoples Democratic party flag - bearer for the September 10, 2016 gubernatorial election in Edo state.

There are other views following the declaration by NiiNoi that suggest that, perhaps the single most important objective of the NPP flag bearer is not to win political power on November 7, but rather to consolidate his ownership of the NPP for the next 20 years as claimed by Andrew Awuni, a formers Presidential Spokesperson under the erstwhile Kufuor / NPP government.

«We are in this country living peacefully and nicely as Christians and Muslims, so we believe in the NPP that Christians and Muslims should work together and that is why whenever we pick a flag bearer as a Christian, we pick a Muslim as a vice.

He said the problems of the nation are too huge that it requires a competent, dynamic and capable personality such as that of the NPP Flag bearer to address them, claiming that Ghanaians are tired and lost hope in the poor leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Many bigwigs of the NDC such as former Trade Minister Ekow Spio - Garbrah, former CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Sylvester Mensah, former Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, Goosie Tanoh, Majority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, former Vice Chancellor of UPSA Prof Joshua Alabi, and Second Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin have emerged or shown interest in contesting to become the flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2020 polls.

This imaginary enemy, he said, is Mr Alan Kyeremanten, first runner - up to Nana Akufo - Addo at the party's last congress that elected the latter as the flag - bearer.

Sheriff's decision came just few days after the Chairman of the party's Caretaker Committee, Sen Ahmed Makarfi announced Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu as the party's flag bearer for the September 10, governorship election in the state.

If we can remove a man from office for incompetence, how can we retain a losing candidate as flag - bearer not once but twice?

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed optimism of winning July 14 governorship election in Ekiti, with the emergence of Prof. Kolapo Eleka as its flag - bearer.

Kumasi - based Prophet says God will punish the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a whole if their flag bearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo loses the upcoming election.

As at time of going to press, the flag bearer and his campaign team were said to be locked up in a meeting in a bid to resolve the tensions that have rocked the party.