G.U.M.SET TO CHALLENGE GIANTS OF GHANA POLITICS

 

G.U.M.SET TO CHALLENGE GIANTS OF GHANA POLITICS

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,LAGOSNIGERIA

Save for a last minute change in electoral fortunes ,it would appear  that a new entrant into the political landscape is at the moment rocking the former Gold Coast to its foundations as Ghana Union Movement is set to fight the usual giants vote-for-vote in the forthcoming Presidential and General elections in Ghana.

Investigations by The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria ,shows that the G.U.M. in terms of visibility and public perception or branding as the case may be  is running neck to neck to President Nana Akuffo -Addo and Ex -President John Dramani  as the election fever in the former Gold Coast reaches its crescendo .

Analysts are however quick to point out that unlike in other climes ,opinion polls and public perception usually count so much due to rubber stamped irregularities usually perpetuated by the incumbents in conjunction  with electoral bodies especially where there is no independence...

As at press time  checks showed that despite the Covid-19 pandemic ,Ghanaians have being involved in voters registration exercise nationwide  ,though there were complains of lower voter turnout by the electoral body ,the Electoral Commission of Ghana..

G.U.M. related publicity and advertising commercials had revealed the rot in governance in Ghana despite the several sugar coated statements  credited to Akuffo-Addo and Mahama as the campaign heated the airwaves in the West African nation ..

United Ghana Movement

The United Ghana Movement is a political party in Ghana. The founder is Charles Wereko-Brobby, formerly a leading member of the New Patriotic Party.

 

Registration[edit]

The party was officially registered with the Electoral Commission of Ghana as a political party in Ghana on 10 January 1997.^[1]

2000 elections[edit]

The first general elections the party contested were the presidential and parliamentary elections of December 2000. Charles Wereko-Brobby stood for president on the party's ticket in December 2000 and came seventh with 0.3% of the popular vote.^[2] The party also contested the parliamentary elections in the same year but won no seats.

Party on vacation[edit]

In 2002, the leader of the party, Wereko-Brobby announced that the party is on vacation.^[3]

Symbols[edit]

The party symbols are as follows:^[1]

·         Motto - Growing people for Ghana's development.

·         Symbol - A clenched fist of the hand with the index and middle fingers raised together.

·         Colours - Blue, White and Green

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·         Charles Wereko-Brobby

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·         Charles Wereko-Brobby (born 27 March 1953, in Kumasi) is an engineer, politician, diplomat and businessman in Ghana. He was once the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana's Volta River Authority, then the country's major power generator and distributor. In the mid-1990s, he established Radio Eye, which was Ghana's first independent radio station - after the government took the station off the air, he was approached by David Ampofo for an interview on the talkshow Time With David, which he agreed to.^[1] He was the chief executive of the Ghana@50 secretariat, responsible for planning Ghana's 50th Jubilee in 2007. After President John Evans Atta Mills, Tarzan, as Wereko-Brobby is popularly known had to appear before numerous commission of inquiries and courts to answer for his stewardship of the Commission. Wereko-Brobby ran for President of Ghana in 2000 as leader of the United Ghana Movement (UGM). He formed the UGM in 1996 after leaving the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He is also the nephew of Victor Owusu a founding father of the [NPP].

·         After the NPP lost power to the NDC in 2012, Wereko-Brobby came out strongly to advise the party to abandon its legal fight to overturn the Electoral Commission's verdict in the courts and rather concentrate on winning the 2016 elections.

·         Education[edit]

·         Wereko-Brobby attended St. Augustine's College and the prestigious Achimota School. He was then educated at the University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom where he was awarded a BSc in Fuel and Combustion Engineering and a PhD in Solar Energy Engineering. He was President of Leeds University Union from 1978 to 1979.^[2]