Eva Lokko, who was the running mate of the PPP during the 2012 elections passed away on Thursday after a short illness.

She was also the party’s hopeful for the Klottey Korle constituency.

The PPP in a statement signed by its National Chairman, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond asked its members to suspend campaigning to “observe a three day mourning period from Monday, October 10, 2016 until Thursday, October 13, 2016.”

“The PPP will open our condolence book at 2pm Friday, October 7, 2016 at the party’s Asylum Down Headquarters for signing,” the statement added.

The statement from the party is below

“REST IN PEACE PERFECT PEACE” – EVA LOKKO

The Progressive People’s Party learned, with profound shock and dismay, of Madam Eva Naa Merle Lokko’s demise late this Thursday afternoon. We express PPP’s heartfelt condolences to her husband, children, family, and well-wishers in this moment of grief, and pray her soul rests in perfect peace with the good Lord.

Madam Eva, as she was affectionately called, was an engineer who rose to become the first female Managing Director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. In 2012, she entered frontline politics when she accepted the nomination to become Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom’s Running Mate in the 2012 Presidential Election. She was looking forward to the December 2016 Parliamentary Elections, eager, to contest, win, and represent the people of Osu Klottey Korle in the next Parliament of Ghana.

She worked in over forty countries across the world in various capacities and served as regional programme coordinator of the UNDP initiative for internet development in Africa. She also served as chairperson of the UN Federation of International Civil Servants Association and the United Nations Staff Council and was a member of the UNDP News Advisory Board.

She had a profound passion for youth empowerment and development and this passion found expression in the NGO – Totally Youth – she founded. She was of the firm belief that the dignity of the youth is largely rooted in enterprise and work. Hence, her continuous push for job creation and job opportunities for the youth, a belief she fought for until her untimely death.

As a wife, mother, colleague, and friend, who won the admiration of the party and country, she will be sorely missed and fondly remembered as a straight shooter, an inspiring trainer, and an effective administrator. Her death is a painful loss to our party and Ghana, and we join her family in mourning.

Consequently, we will defer to and be guided by her family’s wishes regarding all related communications and funeral services.

The National Broadcast by Dr. Nduom to tell Ghanaians what to expect from a PPP administration planned for Saturday October 8, 2012 has been postponed.  Moslems in PPP should pray for her today while Christians should pray for her this Sunday.  The party asks members to suspend campaigning to observe a three day mourning period from Monday, October 10, 2016 until Thursday, October 13, 2016.  The PPP will open our condolence book at 2pm Friday, October 7, 2016 at The Party’s Asylum Down Headquarters for signing.

Party leadership will pay a courtesy call to the family and request all members wear party cloth or red or black. Party representatives are encouraged to pay tribute to Madam Eva when they have the opportunity to speak during this period of mourning.  Further announcements will be made in consultation with the family.

—SIGNED—

Nii Allottey Brew-Hammond

National Chairman

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Party sources confirmed to citifmonline.com.

Eva Lokko, who was also the party’s parliamentary hopeful for the Klottey Korle constituency died today [ Thursday] after a short illness.

The former Managing Director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation had hopes of contesting the Klottey Korle constituency seat on the ticket of the PPP.

She however could not file her nomination to contest the election due to ill-health.

Eva Lokko was an engineer before moving into politics. She was appointed to head the state broadcaster during the era of former President Kufuor.

Her days at the GBC however ended abruptly after some persons at the station rose up against her managerial approach.

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Speaking to  Citi News’ Umaru Sanda Amadu on Citi TV’s Politicos, Philip Addison said he is surprised by some of the things he had come to know about politics.

“It’s been turbulent, I didn’t anticipate some of the things that I have come to know but once I take a decision I don’t step back. I wouldn’t say I’m terrified over some of the things; maybe surprised. Maybe I should say that if I knew some of the things that I know now, I may have hesitated in jumping in,” he added.

Mr. Addison, who was the lead lawyer for NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo during the 2012 Election Petition case, later expressed interest in representing the party in Parliament in the Klottey Korle constituency.

Although the road hasn’t been rosy for him, he managed to get elected as the parliamentary nominee for the area amidst a legal tussle and a disputed primary.

His main contender in the primary, Nii Noi Nortey, once an NPP constituency chairman in the area, is contesting as an independent candidate because he was aggrieved by the process that got Mr. Addison elected over him.

Mr. Addison told Umaru Sanda that going to Parliament would help him have a change in atmosphere from the court room.

“I want to have a change of atmosphere. Well; I thought http://bestacnedrug.com that it’s about time some of us get involved in the political institution in this country and hence my decision to go to Parliament. So far it has been exciting,” he said.

August 2 primary re-run

Addison triumphed over Nii Noi in the party’s second primary. The lawyer polled 396 votes while Nii Noi had 367 votes.

Pro-December 7 polls analysis

The Korle Klottey constituency is considered as one of the seats in the country which would be keenly contested in the December general elections, following the internal wrangling within both the NPP and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

NDC camp

The NDC in the constituency has also seen some issues in recent times which culminated in months of  legal tussle.

The Incumbent Member of Parliament, Nii Armah Ashietey, who lost in the NDC’s primary to Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, Daughter of Jerry John Rawlings, dragged the former to court to have the polls annulled.

But the court eventually cleared Dr. Zanetor and Nii Ashietey discontinued the case.

PPP camp

The running mate to the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) flagbearer in 2012, Eva Lokko, is also aspiring to represent the constituency in Parliament on the ticket of the PPP.

By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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