‘        Johnson Asiedu Nketia, NDC General Secretary

Incumbent General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic
Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has blamed the party’s
defeat in 2016 on the crop of new executives that led the party into
the elections.
According to Asiedu Nketia, the party has been winning elections
since he was elected in 2005, but they dropped from grace after a
particular group of executives were brought on board in 2014.
The NDC scribe, who is parrying blame for the party’s 2016 defeat
argued that the NDC lost the general election only after party
delegates decided to vote out the executives who were in office in
2014.
Asiedu Nketia is seeking re-election after occupying the general
secretary position since December 2005.
The NDC has set November 17, 2018, to select new administrative
leaders to lead the party for the next four years.

Speaking to party members on his campaign trail, Asiedu Nketia
said he should not be blamed for the party’s 2016 defeat.
“In 2005, when we went to vote, during that time the party was
divided, yet I was still given the nod. We were in office, and three
years after some executives were removed. For some of us the
main ones, we were retained…because we were able to reason
together we contested in 2012 and we won. We were dragged to
court (by the NPP) and after eight months we were victorious. In
2014, some of the people that reason together with me were
removed and new ones were brought on board, and we went to the
elections and were defeated. So who is at fault, myself or the new
ones that were brought on board?” he asked.
Asiedu Nketia is a dictator
Asiedu Nketia’s comments come on the back accusations that he
is a dictator.
The National Treasurer of the NDC, Alhaji Abdullah Ahmed, wants
Asiedu Nketia to be rejected at the party’s upcoming national
primaries.

According to him, Asiedu Nketia is a dictator and some of his
actions are destroying the party.
Alhaji Abdullah Ahmed, popularly known as Alhaji PMC, says
Asiedu Nketia does not heed to advice, adding that the party’s
National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, is even unable to control him
and his cohorts.
“There has never been an issue raised by Chairman Portuphy or
myself at our meetings that Asiedu Nketia has approved before.
When I make suggestions they throw it away saying it is illegal.
Chairman Portuphy is unable to control him.
Asiedu Nketia is a dictator. He has a bad attitude. He does not
listen to advice. He likes insulting people. When you say
something and it goes against them, they push the young guys to
insult you,” he said in an interview on Ekosii sen on Accra based
Asempa FM.

source:citinewsroom

The Chief Imam was shot in the stomach with his intestines gushing
out
A least one person has been killed with several houses in the
Nakpachie community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern
Region burnt after a clash erupted between two groups.
Information gathered by TV3 shows that the clash began after a
pig was shot and killed by a farmer after it strayed into his farm
and destroyed produce on the farm.
Yendi Divisional Police Crime Officer Happy Michael Addai
confirmed to TV3 Midday News, Thursday, that one person has
died from the clash.
The police identified the deceased as Adam Alhassan who is a 50-
year old Chief Imam in one of the villages within the Yendi
Municipality.
“We saw a dead body when we did preliminary investigations, and
we saw that, the person killed was shot in the stomach with the
intestines all coming out,” Mr. Addai to TV3 News.
Narrating what led to the incident, the Yendi Divisional Crime
Officer said a farmer who was angered by a pig destroying his
yields shot the pig dead and this did not go down well with the
owner of the pig.

“A man called Alhassan Jibril, a farmer, harvested his corn and left
some on his field to be collected later, then somebody’s pig went
to destroy the harvested corn and he met the pig on the field and
shot it dead,” the Crime Officer recounted.
He added that the pig owner approached the man to find out why
he killed his pig, and this resulted in a confrontation, and the man’s
gun went off and hit the farmer in the thigh, which angered his
people leading to reprisals.
He also confirmed that some houses in three settlements and a
motorbike were burnt down in the clash.
So far, one person is in police custody pending further
investigations, but the one responsible for killing the deceased
Chief Imam is still on the run.
“We have arrested the one who shot the man in the thigh for
having killed his pig, and that man has since been sent before the
Circuit court and has been remanded in prison custody.”

source:3news.com