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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Ato Ahwoi of the opposition National Democratic Congress first rang the alarm and NDC Secretary General Nii Josiah Aryeh claimed that the 0...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      In fact  all the high-profile corruption cases involve officials or friends of the former NDC government such as the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation's former chief  Tsatsu Tsikata; Sherry Ayittey  confidante and colleague of former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings  in connection with the sale of a parastatal rubber company; and Ato Ahwoi  ex-NDC Minister and Chairman of the Accra football club Hearts of Oak  over the transfer of a player to Germany in 2001...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Cashpro  the largest private cocoa buyer  which is run by his former ally Ato Ahwoi  owes US$4...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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...