The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) wants former President John Dramani Mahama to apologize to Ghanaians over what the party describes as a frivolous Election Petition Case.
According to the party, the intent of Mr Mahama filing the case is for political expediency and not based on merit.
In the view of the party, it is sure the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its presidential candidate, Mr. Mahama ‘were only seeking to avoid taking responsibility for their election defeat.”
The Party in a statement issued yesterday following the leak of an audio recording suspected to be that of Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the party’s National Chairman aspirant claiming among other things that the NDC leadership knew at all material times that they had no evidence to challenge the outcome of the 2020 General Election but were hoping they could rely on the perceived weaknesses of the EC’s testimonies to make a case.
See full statement below
APOLOGIZE TO GHANAIANS FOR WASTING THEIR TIME WITH YOUR FRIVOLOUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION—NPP CALLS ON JOHN MAHAMA
Following the mind-boggling revelations and confession by Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on the 2021 Presidential Election Petition, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) calls on the NDC and its perpetual flagbearer, former President John Mahama, to render an unqualified apology to the nation’s Judiciary and the good people of Ghana for wasting everybody’s time with their deceptive election petition.
In a leaked audio recording, the NDC General Secretary, who was addressing some Party executives, stated emphatically that even though they knew that their Party [NDC] had lost the 2020 General Election on fairgrounds and therefore did not have any cause of action, they still went ahead to deceive their supporters and lie to the Ghanaian people that the election was rigged and petitioned the Supreme Court under false pretences.
Their motivation for embarking on this serpentine path, according to Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, was purely for political expediency, as they were only seeking to avoid taking responsibility for their election defeat. He said the NDC leadership knew at all material times that they had no evidence to challenge the outcome of the 2020 General Election but were hoping they could rely on the perceived weaknesses of the EC’s testimonies to make a case.
The NDC, led by former President John Mahama, vigorously embarked on a campaign of hate against the Judiciary, scandalizing and attacking the very integrity of the Justices and calling them UNANIMOUS FC, simply because they judged rightly that his petition lacked merit. The NPP finds this conduct of the NDC leadership not only unpatriotic but also very disgraceful and unconscionable.
It is the height of misconduct for former President John Mahama and the NDC leadership to lie to their supporters that they had won the elections and ask them to come out and jubilate. They virtually asked them to seek redress on the streets because the Electoral Commission had cheated them, which their supporters also blindly followed, terrorizing innocent Ghanaians going about their usual businesses. They also wasted time and resources of the court for months when they knew they had no case. That conduct alone could have plunged the nation into chaos and made nonsense of the enviable reputation of Ghana as the beacon of democracy in Africa.
On the strength of the NDC’s own confession, the NPP invites CSOs, political watchers and indeed all well-meaning Ghanaians to join the New Patriotic Party in demanding an apology from former President John Mahama and the NDC leadership for this disservice to the country, which risked our democracy. Our country has come a long way in our democratic journey. As stakeholders, we are all expected to protect and defend this enviable feat which has made Ghana, a shining example to other African countries and the world.