The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has denied media reports that it called on political parties to consider choosing women as running mates for the December elections. It said the statement purported to have been made by NUGS was false and misleading. The Daily Graphic in its Saturday, July 12 edition carried a story headlined, “Choose Women Running Mates-NUGS”. According to the story, the Union held a press conference at which the call was made. But the president of NUGS, Mr. Kweku Tuoho Bombason in a statement issued on Monday said the story was fundamentally flawed. He said not only was NUGS not present at the said press conference, it was also not consulted and knew nothing about it. Mr. Bombason said “our focus is to comment on broad national developmental issues (after all), specific political party decisions do not lie in our purview as NUGS unless they have dire consequences for the state”. He added that “In the issue under discussion, we do not see such consideration to warrant our comment.” The NUGS president said that although the student who addressed the press conference is the women commissioner of one of the blocs of NUGS, she is not the spokesperson for the union and therefore could not have been speaking on behalf of NUGS. In his view making such a statement as was attributed to the union had the potential to draw the Union into the fray of the debilitating “partisanship that has bedeviled our country”. Mr. Bombason notes however that NUGS is in principle not against the selection of female running mates by political parties. He explained that the union believes there are many competent women in the country who are capable of becoming vice president. He said the decision as to whom to choose as a running mate to the flag-bearer of a political party however should be left entirely to the political actors involved to make.