Ghana's new political party, which has received its provisional certificate from the Electoral Commission -Yellow Ghana, has denied allegations that it has copied the yellow color used by the Movement for Change.

Director of Special Duties for Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, in an interview with Accra-based Okay FM, expressed appreciation to Yellow Ghana for further publicising the movement.

According to Mr Adorye, everyone is aware that the colour yellow is affiliated with Alan Kyeremanten’s movement and that it was the first to officially use the colour and make it known to the public.

He added that the various functions, campaigns, and political activities undertaken by Yellow Ghana were solely making the Movement for Change popular.

In a rebuttal, Yellow Ghana stated that the party has been in existence since 2020. The leader, Samuel Apea-Danquah, contested the 2020 general election under the Yellow Ghana Movement where he ran as a parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma Central. At this point, Alan was still with the New Patriotic Party.

Subsequently, in 2020, Mr Apea-Danquah began the process to register the party, and on May 30, the Electoral Commission (EC) granted Yellow Ghana a provisional certificate to form a political party.

This was contained in a release signed by the Interim National Public Relations Director of Yellow Ghana, Edwin Yeboah Takyi.

“Samuel Apea-Danquah launched his presidential campaign under Yellow Ghana well before Mr Alan Kyeremanten resigned from the NPP and started his Movement for Change on September 25, 2023. Our campaign has been conducting free health screenings since September 1st, 2023,using our distinctive yellow tents in Accra Central, Circle (Kwame Nkrumah Interchange), Kasoa, and Kaneshie First Light.

"Yellow Ghana has participated in at least one national (parliamentary) election (2020 General Elections) under its symbol and yellow colour, unlike the Movement for Change. Despite their attire, it is clear that the advertised colours of the Movement for Change are not yellow. The monarch butterfly, by nature, is orange, black, and white, and most of the Movement for Change's promotional materials also reflect these colours,” the release read.

Also, the release added that “The confusion with Mr Alan Kyerematen's Movement for Change and its associated colout scheme is regrettable and detracts from the remarkable policies in Yellow Ghana's manifesto, which our flagbearer has been promoting during media tours.

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