Sentences with phrase «became flagbearer»

It is an undeniable and incontestable fact that the electoral fortunes of the New Patriotic Party have continuously dwindled since 2008 when Nana Akufo - Addo became the flagbearer.

Leave the Question of me becoming a Flagbearer to the future.

He said the NPP would not allow Dr. Bawumia to become its flagbearer because to him the NPP has always taken northerners for granted.

In 2011, Dr Sekou Nrkumah told Citi FM in an interview that even though some leaders of the party were grooming her for the presidential race, her sister becoming the flagbearer would not be the winning factor for a party whose fortunes have dwindled for nearly two decades.

Mr Spio - Garbrah stated categorically that if former President John Mahama contests to become the flagbearer for the December 2020, he (Spio - Garbrah) will not join the race.

Mr Baidoo said NDC is a party governed by a constitution which requires a national delegates congress to select who becomes the flagbearer of the party.

Nii Amassah Namoale however stated that he would rescind his decision to contest for the presidency if Professor Joshua Alabi decides contest to become the flagbearer of the NDC.

Once the party is in shape, as to who becomes the Flagbearer will not be problematic,» Mr. Kudoto said.

Not exact matches

This people are never prepared to listen to anybody, even the flagbearer when you call him and advise him you become his enemy.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

According to him, the unprecedented achievements of President Mahama will become a waste if the electorate allows someone in the caliber of the NPP flagbearer to rule the country.

The «civil war» in the National Democratic Congress is because 15 people have expressed interest in becoming the party's flagbearer, the managing editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, has revealed.

Flagbearer of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has said that Ghana will bounce back from what he described as the untold hardship if he becomes President.

The NPP flagbearer further called on Ghanaians to follow the example of the Asantehene, OtumfuoOsei Tutu, who is asking the voices of all Ghanaians to be heard on the matter of the voters» register, «so it becomes clear what the people want.»

He was among panellists discussing whether Mahama has the wherewithal to become the NDC flagbearer again.

It is worthy to note that Akufo - Addo is on record to have called out to his supporters before, that «All - Die - Be-Die,» implying that they should all be ready to die to see him become president, a most vicious comment from the NPP Flagbearer's vaulting ambition to become president, willy - nilly.

Since he became party flagbearer, Akufo - Addo has been accused of superintending parallel authorities within the party for his own interest and also because of his reported suspicion of some members of the top hierarchy of the party.

So, torn between two possible history - making events — having the first physically challenged person leading the CPP into an election, and possibly winning to become the first physically challenged president of Ghana, to rival Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States of America (1882 - 1945), who became the 32nd President despite suffering from polio; and electing another Nkrumah to become the first female flagbearer of the CPP and possibly the first female president of Ghana — I guess the delegates found the former more appealing.

The race for the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress has become a major subject of discussion among members of the party with calls of the return of the former president many party pundits believe is the best bet for 2020.

It is but a reflection of what the New Patriotic Party has become since it was taken over by their current flagbearer and his hawks.

Indeed, President Mahama in 2012, needed barely 3 months in his Presidential campaign (shortly after he became the de facto flagbearer of the ruling NDC following the sudden death of the then sitting President, John Evans Atta - Mills).

The former council of state member, Alhaji Asuma Banda, in a TV interview, expressed doubts the NPP flagbearer could ever become the country's president.

I expect our party to win the 2016 elections decisively.Our Parliamentary candidates to win the majority seats in Parliament and our flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo to become the President of Ghana.»

I expect that we all want our party to win the 2016 elections decisively; our parliamentary candidates to win the majority of seats in Parliament and our flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to become the President of Ghana.

I need not remind everybody that in 2007, the contest to become the NPP flagbearer was between 17 of us.

A flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ekwow Spio Garbrah, has said that he will oppose any attempt to legalise homosexuality in the country whether he becomes President or not.

According to Mr Ayariga, Dr Edward Mahama can not become the party's flagbearer in the 2016 elections with such an attitude.

As a number of media houses project the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, to win the 2016 polls, he has expressed confidence in the incumbent, President John Mahama, to concede defeat if or when it becomes necessary.

The NPP Flagbearer finally secured the presidency at the third time of asking, beating the incumbent, President John Mahama who became the first incumbent to lose a presidential election since Ghana returned to a multi-party democracy in 1992.