Obed Yao Asamoah

The confusion in the NDC’s top ranks echoes that at the party congress in 2005 when Rawlings backed Mills Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and Kwabena Adjei to eject his former Foreign Affairs and Justice Minister Obed Asamoah from the chair...

Another former Rawlings ally Obed Yao Asamoah had hoped Kwesi Botchwey would head his new Democratic Freedom Party (DFP)...

The new Democratic Freedom Party formed by an NDC defector Obed Yao Asamoah also hopes to become a 'third force' and is said to be supported by NDC figures in the Volta and Greater Accra who want to reduce the influence of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings...

Last year's was brutal: fighting broke out and former Foreign Minister and Attorney General Obed Asamoah and his allies after being defeated defected to form the Democratic Freedom Party...

The former Chairman of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) Obed Asamoah was pushed out of the party at an acrimonious year-end congress; he and his faction will try to form a centre-left group to oppose Flight Lieutenant (retired) Rawlings's strong-arm tactics...

Forces loyal to ex-President Jerry John Rawlings are battling it out with supporters of former Attorney General and Foreign Minister Obed Asamoah...

Many of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings' colleagues notably party Chairman Obed Asamoah blame him for the National Democratic Congress defeat on 7 December by John Agyekum Kufuor's New Patriotic Party (NPP)...

But the NDC's favourite backed by Chairman Obed Asamoah former National Security Minister Kofi Totobi Quakyi and the brothers Kwamena and Ato Ahwoi is former Communications Minister John Dramani Mahama...

Botchwey was seen as supporting the faction of NDC party chairman Obed Yao Asamoah who has further muddied the waters by calling for a 'redefinition' of Rawlings' role as NDC founder (code for taking a back seat)...

The opposition New Democratic Congress will start campaigning for the 2004 elections with flagbearer John Atta Mills (backed by ex-President Jerry John Rawlings) after he beat former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey (backed by party Chairman Obed Asamoah) for the nomination...