
Sakura Gakuin and HGS will perform in Tokyo Idol Festival 2014 on 8/2, 8/3. ED: Ĥth live DVD "Sakura Gakuin The Road to Graduation 2013 ~Kizuna~" to be released on 7/23. They currently have 10 members with an average age of 13.Ĩth single is titled Anima Rhythm, and is the new ending theme of Ciao Ciao TV!(included in the bonus DVD bundled with the latest issue of Ciao). They also hold live events modeled after a class where they learn various things, with their teacher/manager Mori Hayashi as MC. Their main events are new students transfer ceremony, school festival and graduation ceremony. Their concept is of a school, and to this end they have clubs(subunits), call their fans "parents", and graduate from the group at the same time they graduate from middle school. The group's name came from Sakuragaokacho, where Amuse's office is located. Sakura Gakuin is the idol unit with "limited time of growth" where the girls express their personality in various fields on the theme of school life and club activites. If you don't like this thread please hide it and move on. I am sure Spio was in his 40s at the time.Well, let's see how this thread goes then. Yes, we were young but we served and served properly. “When I became deputy minister to my brother Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, I was 39 years old. However, the ex-president parried the accusations at the meeting when he said, “All those people they are referring to are above 40 years.” He queried, “How can you call a 40-year-old man with wife and children a young man surrounding the president? I don’t understand.” We the old ones come with experience, he should have listened to us),” he told Accra-based Starr FM on Wednesday. I will say this anywhere without any fear or favour. “The handlers were all young, inexperienced and they misled him.

Kwabena Adjei had stated unequivocally that it was the inexperienced people around President Mahama who misled him. In the past weeks, party activists like Koku Anyidoho (deputy general secretary), Anita De Sooso (vice chairperson), Joseph Bipoba Naabu (MP for Yunyoo), Yaw Boateng Gyan (former national organizer), among many others, have all claimed that Mahama, then NDC presidential candidate, sidelined most of the executives and rubbed shoulders only with the young appointees.Ī member of the communications team of the party, Agbesi Notsu, described the national organizer and campaign coordinator, Kofi Adams, as a ‘disaster’ who contributed hugely to the NDC’s defeat and said Kofi Adams did a terrible job as the campaign coordinator which set the party on track for defeat in the polls.Įven Dr. They accused Mr Mahama of not heeding to wise counsel from senior party members and rather used his ‘boys’ to suppress dissenting views in the run-up to the elections.

Edward Omane Boamah, who was the Minister of Communications as well as Kofi Adams, campaign coordinator. Names that are on the lips of these ‘senior’ NDC members are ex-President Mahama’s trusted aide Stan Dogbe and Dr. The ‘experienced’ people in the opposition party have been accusing ex-President Mahama of running a failed campaign by surrounding himself with ‘young’ and ‘inexperienced’ people and that led to the party’s humiliating defeat on December 7, 2016.įormer National Democratic Congress (NDC) chairman, Dr Kwabena Adjei and former national organiser, Yaw Boateng Gyan, are among the party chieftains who believe that the NDC was walloped because of the inexperienced handlers of the president’s 2016 campaign.

In what can be interpreted as an affirmation of trust in his young ministers, the ex-president at a meeting with his appointees, said, “Some say young people surrounded the president…I mean just say I don’t like the people not that they are young.”

Former President John Dramani Mahama has put up a spirited defence of his young appointees who have been blamed for causing the party’s defeat in the 2016 general election.Īccording to him, those saying that he surrounded himself with young people (‘babies with sharp teeth’) dislike those personalities and that’s why they are quick to blame them for the party’s defeat.
