Election 2024: NPP presents Andrew Amoako Asiamah as the parliamentary candidate for Fomena

we're just 85 days away from the 2024 general election good afternoon and welcome to election brief we're live on dsv Channel 4 to1 go TV channel 125 on all our social media platforms and around the world on my Jo line.com election headquarters is brought to you by petol Platinum energy energizing dreams the chartered Institute of Management accountants and the American Institute of certified public accountants together as the association of international certified professional accountants is also brought to you by German ozone Medical Center Alternative therapy Dental wellness and Beauty as well as chopbox Technologies a convenience service and N Bridge Foundation Bridging the Gap for positive you development my name is fosta SAU please stay for details [Music] [Applause] we are your home of independent fearless and credible journalism thanks for choosing US 17 candidates have so far filed to contest the presidential elections as a clock ticks towards the close of nomination just three hours away meanwhile the number is likely to increase by close of day as more candidates are expected to file we can first listen to one of the aspirants profess esonda Bria an independent candidate who is promising job cre ation and the use of the military to deal decisively with illegal mining uh concerning governance we need people that we can trust I hope you're getting me so it's it's good but sometime we have the narrative out there like politics is evil and all kinds of things and it's driving we the pastors from the scene but we need to be at the front line thank you very much all right sir so one of the key issues this week has been galam um when voted into Power what are some of the things to that some these areed first of all Gam issu uh is is very very serious as you can see all our um water bodies have been destroyed so what I'm going to do is that uh as a commander-in chief why the military are there and we can't even fight garam so we need to use the military and and and deal with those issues and then for that we need to also create job for the Youth because of the jobless and all kinds of thing that's why they they doing the G same job how will you form your government um it's a corrective um government we need to bring people from all kinds of angles to help us to govern the N colle James a stationed at the EC headquarters is joins us live via Zoom with more James which other candidates have also filed so far another independent candidate St have also this morning as well as the People's National Convention and PNC's Bernard Mo so three of them have filed already and the PNC's Bernard Mona is already promising a first sh on the national cake as far as the country's mineral resources are concerned for every citizen if he is president come December [Music] 7 we are focused on how to make your life better we want to ensure that the resources of Ghana are exploited for the benefit of the people of Ghana have you ever seen gold proceed in your account before or you've seen oil proceed in your account before you've seen uh Coco proes in your account before a Bernard Mon's presidency is coming to let every ghanian have a fuel and a share in your account when you are born a ghanian a bank account is open in your name at age one month and that bank account will serve as an investment account for you so procees from coko procees from coko procees from Timber procees from gold procees from Diamond procees from oil boite everything that Ghana owns and exports the people of Ghana will have a share I am saying that if you don't get anything at all 300 to 500 Ghana cities from these cumulative appro uh uh resources will enter into your account so just imagine per mon per month per month because every month we sell every month we sell process procees and and we obtain proes so what that means is that if you have your son or your your child let me put a child to represent both sides if you have your child and the child starts to receive 300 to 500 a month until that child gets to 18 will the child be born into poverty or he will be born into wealth this is my focus and that is what I want to do James how many more candidates are we expecting to F before the deadline we expect as much as seven more candidates M for the sh to already and the candid for gcp Dr A J is already in the waiting room waiting for the Electoral to resume sitting after the break to take his nomination so in the few minut that number would rise to eight and six more will be expected by 5:00 this evening thank you James a he stationed at the EC headquarters I be bringing updates before for the deadline elapses now three female presidential aspirants filed their nomination on Thursday to contest the 2024 jary elections bring the total number of candidates to 14 by the end of the third day among the independent candidates is jenet nabila the former General Secretary of the PNC who chose to run independently after her new party The People's National Party failed to meet the registration requirement there's more in the following report three female presidential aspirants andf P kumakuma of the CPP Ghana Freedom Party gfp and Janet Asana Nabil former PNC General Secretary who was expected to file for another political party People's National party but ended up filing as an independent candidate oh we started that was in April to ask where thinking that by now the processes should be done because number one electoral commission asks us for a a a party headquarters they asked about the Constitution they told us to provide them with our regional and National Executives they told us to provide them 262 um District H Founders they ask us to H H Pay 40,000 Ghana cities they ask us to establish 16 Regional Offices across the country to which we did with um uh how do I even with uh with uh with haste we did all the things but then they told us that H they are busy some of the things they were supposed to do they couldn't do it and for that matter we can file as an independent candidate while the processes still go on we are not happy about it but then because we are not happy at all about it but then she also expressed concerns about the rigorous nature of the process in the history of this country it has never happened before that the Electoral commission will give a discount to encourage people I hope the Press is hearing this one this this this should be a highlight this should be a highlight so let me use H this opportunity to thank the commission let me also H register something that I think that maybe H moving forward we should look at look at the number of uh lifeless in front of you we have to run around the whole 262 districts to get the and they are supposed to write them in quadruple in the 21st C we are now in a not even gen Z World gen Alpha world where digitalization is supposed to be the hour hour of the day yet we have to do all these things we are pleading with the commission n kumakuma is rallying support for a female president on December 7 it is my believe and hope that as the woman one of the women and the first woman to stand for the convention people's party is going to be there for all young people across the nation and everyone who has a dream and who believes in Ghana to be able to get up and do what is right for the nation the gfp is hopeful that the EC chair would deliver a successful election 2024 filing of nominations for the December election ends this Friday with 14 candidate filing so far and at least eight more candidates expected to file on Deadline Day James a Joy news the opposition National Democratic Congress has described the Electoral commission's response to their calls for an independent forensic audit of the voters register as untain the NDC has over the past weeks raised concerns over some irregularities in the register declaring a nationwide protest to drum home the appoint the Electoral commission has responded to the concerns of the NDC at a news conference just yesterday saying the ndc's reasons are premature show the NBC has hit back at the EC saying the EC's response is also untain tanko Rashid computer is deputy director of Elections and it for the NDC he spoke earlier on newex we met them on Friday we were on the round table with them we did a demonstration of the Grievances that we have all the Commissioners were there plus their ICT consultant they look at it they look at the enity of the problems that we demonstrated to them and we said look we are even ongoing we still doing further checks about it but these issues that we are we cannot trust your judgment to fix it because you deliberately created that mess because they used their own way that they deliberately added those one how can you deliberately add figures into a register for what purpose it it it tees out from the register that we are talking the audit of the register let us have the audit what is Their Fear why what why do they have to hide if they have nothing to hide they should allow the audit let the audit come when the audit come we all our head up everybody will be on level playing Ground we not know that we have a clean register we we have a clean register we exhibit it again how many days that will it take us to exhibit even a one week exhibition is enough and then everybody will go and check and be sure that we have our register very neat clean and and for purpose and can be used for a purpose that is what that is these are the things that makes election free and fair like my other discor was talking of if a country is to be is to be destabilized it's through registration of Voters and then voting political scientist at the quing kuma University of Science and Technology Dr quisa Machi wating says the only way forward is for both parties to find a middle ground as we have just 85 days until the December polls he also spoke on news de was it the e found out the discrepancies in the Buddhist register and then informed Gans or they thought that everything was okay until the NDC came out with it why is it that the EC is saying NDC finish us with what you you've got before we are able to proceed to ensure that we have a clean votage register are they don't they have the capacity themselves that is what NDC that is what is making them call for a forensic audit the mere fact that the EC is acknowledging that look on our own we are not able to une all errors in in the voest register the call for the NDC to provide additional information is an admission that they by themselves are not able to address the challenge before them in a situation that we find ourselves in as Gans and given the fact that the the EC does not own the elections and then the potential cast ropic outcome of Elections that one of the biggest parties feel that you know the EC is partially or somehow or they suspect the EC as being in the camp of their political opponents let's take you now to the Ashanti region the New Patriotic Party has nominated second depy speaker of Parliament and incumbent Member of Parliament for fora Andrew amaran as its parli candidate for the constituency in the 2024 parliamentary election now this comes despite mrman resigning from the party in 2020 to contest as an independent candidate where he defeated the MP's candidate in the process the Ashan Regional chairman of the MPP Bernard inbaku introduced the deputy speaker of parliament as the MP's candidate for formula insisting it is a united front for victory Parliament now 137 137 the whole party politically politically J let's Ross over live to the Ashanti region and AI Dan adum joins us on Zoom for more on this development and how are constituents taking this news the constituents of fora have received this news with so much excitement um considering the turnout of the 2020 election results um that made Andrew es the second Deputy speaker of parliament um represents them in Parliament despite all the Grievances that came up during the 2020 elections you you would remember posy that in the lead up to the 2020 election uh there were some disturbances I mean an internal disturbance between Andrew and then the constituency executive which led him to out himself from the party to contest as an independent candidate he won on on his own as an independent candidate and when he went to proceeded to Parliament he still joined the NCP to form the majority in Parliament it is upon this that the reconciliation committee set up by the national New Patriotic Party have made up their mind to draw back Andrew into the party this strategy they believe would make sure that they maintain the forina seat for the NCP considering the fact that this particular election is going to be a critical one for both parties you realize that historically the fora constituency has been the constituency of the MP since 1996 it has been won by the mppp until 2020 when um honorable Andre won as an independent candidate well for them to maintain that particular seat it is only right for the nppp to have Andrew es represent them as Member of Parliament for the pera constituency in January when the party was having the internal parliamentary contest they left out the pera constituency to strategically um deploy moves to make sure that they do not cause um chaos in inside the party especially when there is an independent candidate and so they did not even open nomination for any other candidate to contest and so it is only right for the party as they say to bring out the second Deputy speaker who is the incumbent Member of Parliament to represent them um on on in the fora constituency as their parliamentary candidate it is upon this note that the reconciliation committee led by the regional chairman of the MPP Bernard introduced to the second Deputy speaker to to the people of fora as their parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party and so when it comes to excitement I must say that the consant of are really excited about this news thank you join us live from the Ashante region now the national Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for siani West constituency M amanga has pleaded with the constien to see the ndc's rescue mission as communial labor that requires their committed involvement speaking at otasi after filing her nomination to contest the December parliamentary elections ment amanga said do the current government and the MP have failed the country residents should not lose hope because the NDC has what it takes to reset the country and relieve the people of the hardship press SEO has more in this report sunai West parliamentary seat in the buono region has been for the New Patriotic Party since its Creation in the 2020 elections the national Democratic congress with militant Mana as candidate lost the Kenly contested election to the MP's incumbent member of Parliament ignaas Baff were by difference of 3,48 votes the two will take to the third yet again in the 2024 elections after militant yua successfully filed her nomination at the sun West District Office of the Electoral commission at odasi as the ndc's candidate ment expressed her disappointment with a lack of development in a constituency saying that is enough for the fourth term s MP to be voted out sun west member of Parliament seat is not his personal asset indeed what man can do he has done his best he should go off the seat I am not an MP but the people cry enough for me to hear and we went to reshaping majority of the roads people are suffering dying on this road he never paid attention to it they can go wherever and plan whatever they want to plan against this elections this seat is us the MPP she appealed to the people to join hands with the NDC and see the rescue mission as a communal labor and I'm telling the people they should fear not all hope is not lost we have the energy we rescue the mission and we know that we will reset Ghana once back again Ghana will be back on the track Ghana will work Tan West would work and I'm pleading with every individual this is a communial labor everybody needs to get him or herself involved because we need to reset this country and I believe in the rescue mission I believe that his Excellency John dramani mahama will give us a better leadership of governance and inshallah the seat of Sunan West Member of Parliament will be declared for myself inshallah M 7 December sun west EC director Eric kanu assured the parties of free and fair elections we are we are we are ready and all I can assure is that we are going to give them a free and fair and transparent elections for this year so they should expect nothing less than free and fair transparent elections precious Joy newsi presidential advisor on health Dr nari has rubbished suggestions that the New Patriotic Party has not added a single bed to any hospital since they came into par 7 and a half years ago he cited the completion of several projects including the eurobet the invest project which was started during the kufur administration but was abandoned by the mahama administration speaking at the third day annual conference of the association of Health Service administrators Ghana at Gira he revealed that government will commission agenda one1 Hospital projects before the end of the year Jo news is Upper West Regional correspondent graic Salam reports from more the 47th Annual conference and continuing professional education of the association of Health Service administrators Ghana was held on the team implementation of networks or practice towards achieving Universal Health Coverage the role of the Health Service administrator presidential advisor on health Dr in assari P suggestion from opponents of the government that the MPP government has not added a single bed hospital in their 7 and a half years reing power we've completed six of the nine stalled abandoned eurojet Health sector projects initiated by his Excellency president J kufur in April 2008 we have finished the G East Municipal hospital at quab we completed the W Regional Hospital here in W we've completed in so District Hospital in we've completed thead Hospital we've completed the chasu hospital we've completed Kumasi District Hospital these are six and I'm happy to also announce the 250 Ashante Regional hospitala will be commission inshah next month drar disclosed that before the end of the year hospitals under the agenda 111 project will be commissioned fortunately 100 of the 104 District hospitals have started they are in the ranges of 5% some of them have just started to as at the first week of August some of them have reached 87.5% so presently and sun is getting to about 90% now I will stand here boldly and said that before the year comes to an end we shall commission and put to use agenda 111 hospitals across the country you spoke of plans by the government to implo 78,000 health professionals upon the completion of the agenda one1 projects I'm happy to announce that we have done the human resources plan we will be employing 70,000 health professionals including Health Service ADR it is therefore undeniable that Health Service administrators will be one of the key staff to be recruited under this Arrangement away from that the countdown is on and political parties are intensifying campaigns for just 85 days to the general polls but that is not without some funny moments Prince quami kuga Chronicles some of the funny moments in the following report a season of promises but who is promising the most [Music] [Music] [Applause] it is evident the NV flag bearer Dr Mahmud B andj taking a swipe at his opponent John mahama here is another one from him he was a Kitt Kitty and 24hour disco the best is in w w and the mate is going to take it from Mal w w and get to Baga and Beyond and we will transform this country incompetent Maham [Applause] Administration MPP is going to come and transform Ghana in one one and a half years and the NDC has been clamoring for an independent audit of the voters register but the EC is having none of that the EC has a nice explanation to the ndc's demands perhaps this is the first time the NDC has taken interest in the register otherwise one would have expected them to call for such an audit of the 2016 register which contained photos of plants and animals representing voters they may be con Ed underdogs in the Electoral race but they are not taking the elections lightly at all the apc's hassa and lpgs kofia palu are slagging it out I I win this election I win this election and where the results are going to where the votes are going to come from myself I don't even know but I know one thing for sure that I'll win this election okay I win I'm the next president of nobody can change it dreaming and I want him to wake up is still dreaming when he's awake then we can discuss the issu and you remember this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] right well that was president in 2020 by the NDC flag John mahama has a remix [Music] [Laughter] from until the elections are over you can always trust us to bring you more of the funny quotes on the campaign Trail and of course politics in Ghana should never be boring prince quam report for Joy news Prince kwami put together that exciting report you can watch it on all our social media handles where Journeys on TV my name is for Asaf for more news please log on to my Jo online.com have a pleasant afternoon as you enjoy the rest of our programs [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music]