Abraham Amaliba, the Director of Conflict Resolution for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has revealed that the party’s flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, signed the 2024 election peace pact under protest.
This development follows Mahama’s commitment to the peace agreement on Thursday, November 28, 2024, despite the NDC initially signalling that they would not participate in the pact.
The peace accord, a customary gesture by the flagbearers of contesting presidential candidates, aims to ensure violence-free elections in Ghana.
Speaking on The Big Issues on Channel One TV on Saturday, November 30, 2024, Amaliba explained that Mahama’s decision to sign the peace pact was not a simple endorsement.
He emphasized that the act was done under protest, reflecting the party’s reservations about certain aspects of the agreement.
“He has this goodwill from the international countries so, to have a peace pact being signed in your own country where you are an ambassador to ECOWAS, AU, and you say you will not sign, is a bit incongruous. So, clearly, by his nature, he went to sign. But you notice that in signing, I will say he signed under protest.
When you listen to this statement, he asked, ‘We have been signing this peace pact in 2017, Awayaso West Wuogon, state agents maimed and attacked innocent people who were going about their electoral work. Then he cited the eight people who were killed in the 2020 elections’
“In all this, he tried to say that we can sign this peace pact, but if the government of the day fails to do its responsibility, we will still come back to square zero,” he stated.
