Botchwey's backers include other stalwarts of the ancien régime: one-time head of government Paul Victor Obeng and the ex-National Security Advisor Captain Kojo Tsikata and more discreetly former Foreign Minister Obed Asamoah...
Other incidents 'Albert' referred to were the attempted bombing of former security chief Kojo Tsikata's Accra home and the house of Tony Gbeho (the late brother of the current Foreign Minister Victor Gbeho)...
Key factions are:• First Lady faction: Attorney General Asamoah and Sports Minister Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah; • The Fante Confederation: Minister of State (responsible for National Security) Kofi Totobi Quakyi Castle Chief of Staff Ato Dadzie; Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi and brother Ato (who brought in Atta-Mills as Rawlings' running mate in 1996); • The Ga clique: led by Justice Annan and Interior Minister Okaija Adamafio; • The Northern Region: led by Defence Minister Mahama Idrissu Deputy Education Minister Ibn Chambas NDC General Secretary Huudu Yahya and Transport Minister Edward Salia; • The Dzelukope group: focus has shifted from former National Security Advisor Captain Kojo Tsikata to poet and former Ambassador to the United Nations Kofi Awoonor and securocrats such as Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant General Ben Akafia; • Asante caucus: P...
The delays and backtracking suggest the President is missing the counsel of regime stalwarts such as former National Security Advisor Captain Kojo Tsikata (fresh from a libel victory in the London courts) and de facto Prime Minister Paul Victor Obeng...
The NCP security advisor Kojo Tsikata's brainchild was seen as a useful ally for the NDC and a way to split the leftist opposition parties...