Presidential aspirant trades punches with another at IPAC crunch meeting
- A fight broke out during the crunch meeting between the Eminent Advisory Council of the Electoral Commission EC with the leadership of the commission and the IPAC over the compilation of a new voter register for this year's general elections
- Presidential candidate hopeful, Kofi Apaloo of the Liberal Party Ghana traded blows with the general secretary of the All People's Congress
- It took the intervention of a clergyman to separate them
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Reports by Graphic online reveals that a fight broke out during the crunch meeting between the Eminent Advisory Council of the Electoral Commission (EC) with the leadership of the commission and the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) over the compilation of a new voter register for this year's general elections.
The meeting saw a presidential candidate hopeful, Kofi Apaloo of the Liberal Party Ghana trade blows with the general secretary of the All People's Congress (APC).
It took the intervention of a clergyman to separate them.
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The meeting itself originally planned to take two hours run for five hours.
The meeting ended without a consensus, Graphic Online gathered.
Meanwhile, Member of Parliament for the Tamale North Constituency in the Northern Region has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo “wears a crown of shame” following Transparency International’s assessment of Ghana’s fight against corruption.
Ghana was recently ranked 80th out of 180 countries on the 2019 global Corruption Perception Index (CPI) with a score of 41 per cent, an exercise carried out by international organisation Transparency International (TI).
Making reference to the CPI on TV3’s New Day, the Tamale North legislator observed the country’s fight against corruption is the worst under Akufo-Addo’s watch.
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