Ofosu-Ampofo polled 3 656 votes ahead of Dan Abodakpi with 2 199 and Huudu Yahaya with 1 823...
NDC Deputy Secretary Huudu Yahaya remains a Rawlings-loyalist...
Mensah and Attorney General Obed Asamoah is a major force in the party as is the Northern Faction led by Presidential Advisor Idrissu Mahama and NDC veterans Huudu Yahya and party Co-Chairman Issifu Ali...
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...
There are the personal factions: the First Lady faction dominated by Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah; the Obed Asamoah faction led by the former Foreign Minister; the Ahwoi faction led by Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi (now appointed acting Foreign Minister) and his brother Ato Ahwoi (energetic asset confiscators in the 1980s reputed to be among the wealthiest families in Ghana); the Fante Confederation faction which includes Totobi Quakyi and Ato Dadzie; and the Northern Faction led by Defence Minister Idrissu Mahama Issifu Ali Trade Minister Ibrahim Adamu Huudu Yahya and former Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed ibn Chambas...
); • Ahwoi faction: led by Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi (supported by his brother Ato who runs commodity traders Cashgro) this faction is strongest in the Western region and works closely with NDC local government executives across the country; • Fante Confederation faction: includes Information Minister Totobi Quakyi and Ato Dadzie;• Northern faction: led by Defence Minister Idrissu Mahama and includes NDC national Co-Chairperson Issifu Ali Trade Minister Ibrahim Adamu Huudu Yahya and deputy Foreign Minister Ibn Chambas (a possible running mate for Rawlings)...
