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...
The former Attorney General and Justice Minister Obed Yao Asamoah got C56 mn...
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...
Rawlings and many of the surviving loyalists from his early years in power favour Attorney General and Justice Minister Obed Asamoah to run as Vice-President...
The plan follows unease among some in the NDC about the electability of First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings whose candidacy for presidential nomination has been championed by Attorney General Obed Asamoah and Sports Minister Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah...
Particularly under fire is Attorney General and party finance committee chairman Obed Asamoah who rarely visits party headquarters (Rawlings is said never to have entered the building)...
Ghana's longest-serving cabinet minister Attorney General and Justice Minister Obed Asamoah has had to explain how C100-300 million (US$45-135 000) in cash belonging to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) came to be stolen by two policemen guarding his house...
Totobi Kwakye is tipped to head another innovation – the Ministry of National Security – while the longest-serving minister Obed Asamoah is to move from Foreign Affairs; the respected James Victor Gbeho has been named as Deputy Foreign Minister...
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...
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Obed Asamoah helped Abuja by publicly declaring that he thought Nigeria 'had come a long way'since 1995's suspension...
After a visit to Banjul on 12-13 June led by Ghanaian Foreign Minister Obed Asamoah with deputy ministers from Canada and New Zealand the Commonwealth group declared itself broadly satisfied with the Gambian military's programme to restore civil rule...
