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CelebritiesRe: Ghanaians Blast Sarkodie After He Requested Financial Help For Little Girl by Jephjay: 9:39pm On Jan 29, 2017
Nigerian pidgin is annoying but unique so appreciate ours too
EmperorLee:
Ghanian pidgin is annoying menh.
Foreign AffairsRe: In Ghana And Got This News My Fellow Great Men Could This Be True? by Jephjay(op): 12:57am On Dec 12, 2016
Foreign AffairsIn Ghana And Got This News My Fellow Great Men Could This Be True? by Jephjay(op): 10:03pm On Dec 11, 2016
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has covertly interfered in the electoral process that led to the victory of Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party, NPP, candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the just concluded Ghana presidential elections, The Trent can report.

According to a source with intimate knowledge of the situation, barely a week to the December 7, 2016 presidential election in Ghana, President Buhari approved the release of $75 million to the presidential campaign of Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP candidate, with the aim of installing him as the new president of Ghana. Just like General Buhari, Akufo-Addo, aged 72, ran his presidential campaign on the message of “Change”.

The Trent gathered exclusively on Friday, December 9, 2016 that President Buhari’s interference in Ghana’s presidential election was executed by a special delegation from Nigeria led by Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai who arrived Ghana days before the election under the guise of being an “election observer”.

According to first-hand sources, Governor El-Rufai, who lodged at the Movenpick Hotel Accra, displayed more than passing interest in the Ghanaian presidential polls. He propagated the campaign message of the leading opposition candidate in the poll, and also joined in unofficially announcing that Akufo-Addo had won the elections long before the results were declared.

“I can tell you for free that this election has been largely a Nigerian election,” a reliable source told our correspondent in Accra.

“A lot of Ghanaians are happy that they have had the chance to elect a new president but in actual fact, Akufo-Addo, the new president-elect of may have lost this election but for the last minute cash bailout by President Buhari.

“It is an open secret in Ghana that Akufo-Addo’s party, the NPP has suffered a protracted cash crisis owing to the exit of their party from power within the last eight years.

“The cash crunch was affecting their campaigns seriously until the bailout from Buhari. This helped a great deal in election day mobilization of voters, hiring of buses from Accra to different parts of the country to convey voters to their hometowns where they are registered to vote amongst other logistic concerns.

“This is an unprecedented interference in the politics of another nation that could have serious diplomatic implications between Nigeria and Ghana.

“Both countries have enjoyed a good relationship for years but this is one step that the Nigerian government under Buhari has taken too far,” the source, who spoke to our reporter on condition of anonymity said.

President Buhari’s careless interference in the politics of foreign nations recently made news with reports that he donated $500 million to the Hillary Clinton campaign in the November 8, 2016 US presidential election.

A video, circulated by a US non-governmental group, the American Black Group for Democracy, had alleged that Nigeria donated $500 million (about N150 billion) to Clinton’s failed bid for the White House.

It claimed that the money was “pledged to the US Secretary of State, Sen John Kerry, and US Ambassador in Abuja” and added that “the donation may create a huge misunderstanding between Nigeria and the incoming Trump’s US government.”

The Buhari administration denied the allegations and slam the report as “fiction”.

Fresh allegations of Buhari’s involvement in the ‘removal’ of President John Mahama of Ghana may have pushed Nigeria further into the brink of a diplomatic war with Ghana resulting in far-reaching implications.

Asked why President Buhari would overstep his boundaries to interfere in the Ghanaian polls, the source disclosed that President Mahama’s rising influence within the West African sub-region and his impressive performance in Ghana’s infrastructure development was increasingly being used by Nigerians as a yardstick to measure the performance of Buhari’s lacklustre change administration in Nigeria.

According to an inside source in the Nigerian presidency, Buhari’s handlers were said to have been alarmed by the unfolding trend and how it could affect Buhari’s re-election in 2019, and then worked to convince the president that supporting President Mahama’s opponent in the Ghanaian presidential election was a worthwhile investment.

“It’s an ego trip for the president [Buhari],” the source said. “Apparently, inspired by reports of Russia’s interference in the US Elections, and craving a need for regional dominance, Buhari’s strategist felt that actively aiding the installation of heads of states in West African countries would boost his profile on the continent.”

A senior official of the Ghanaian government who did not want to be named told to The Trent on Monday, ahead of the election day, that the Ghanaian government has established confirmation of “external interference” from the Buhari government but was carefully considering the implications of any outright or diplomatic confrontation that could snowball into a serious crisis between both nations.

Earlier reports in the Ghanaian media suggest that Akufo-Addo had actually reached out to President Buhari for financial support. “Nana Addo has been in touch with General Buhari on a wide range of issues including appeal for financial assistance for his campaign. He has also been talking to him [General Buhari] to put in a word to convince President Mahama to compel Ghana’s EC to change the current voter register,” a source told News Ghana in March 2016.

Efforts by The Trent to contact presidential spokespersons Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina proved abortive at the time of this report.

Meanwhile, El-Rufai who is currently still lodged at the Movenpick Hotel, Accra, is said to be preparing to depart Ghana for Nigeria on Saturday after Friday’s official declaration of Akufo-Addo’s victory over incumbent President Mahama.
Christianity EtcRe: I'm Just Tired Of Going To Church! Is This Normal? by Jephjay: 11:51am On Sep 11, 2016
Sermwell:
I feel going to church is just a waste of time since they are all going to be repeating themselves undecided everyone here in our house is busy preparing for tomorrow's sunday service but I don't see the big deal and I'm already making up my mind not to attend any church service anymore! I'm just tired abeg!! I hope this is normal!
Logically it kind of make sense but spiritually you are making a fool out of yourself. John 4:24 take note of that verse
FamilyRe: Why Is It Difficult For Ladies To Keep Their Virginity Till Marriage These Days? by Jephjay: 11:26pm On Aug 29, 2016
Stop being gendee bias everyday women women what have they done that men have not than worse?
And the women too the sex is too much
Christianity EtcRe: My Message Is Not For Everybody - Enoch Adeboye Responds To Critics by Jephjay: 11:35am On Aug 17, 2016
He has said it all, if the message does not concern you, just keep quiet as for me i think is well said
Nairaland GeneralRe: Corpse Of Woman Buried 14-years-ago In Epe, Lagos Found Same Way It Was. Photo by Jephjay: 3:05pm On Aug 15, 2016
Is that how excavators exhume the body perfectly from the grave? I am not doubting the powers of the most HIGH but i feel it is a fabricated lie based on the picture shown.
Wanted to show it to my Ghanaian friends .... but ...... grin
CrimeRe: 3-Year-Old Rape Victim Bled To Death In Lagos by Jephjay: 6:26pm On Aug 13, 2016
[b][/b]this is soo bad do we blame the devil with this too? I bet you on the day of judgement satan himself will say he does not know some people.... see the way my heart dey boil
PoliticsRe: Compare President Of Ghana And Nigeria In Military Uniform by Jephjay: 2:33pm On Aug 12, 2016
Ghana president nail am pass naija president

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