The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed disappointment in the manner in which Former President, John Dramani Mahama is handling the outcome of the 2020 election.
According to the NPP, it finds the unwillingness of candidate Mahama to go to the appropriate forum to make his case strange.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra Tuesday, the General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu said,”The Presidency is not his exclusive right to own. In 2012, we also felt cheated. Our presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, told his supporters that he didn’t want one drop of Ghanaian blood to be shed for him to be president. He said he would take his case to the courts. And he did exactly that.”
John Boadu also said that,”Even when the courts made a pronouncement and he disagreed with the verdict of the court, he accepted it with grace and dignity, and bounced back to win in 2016.
He, therefore, urged Mahama to do the right thing by going to court.
John Boadu also said Mahama from the onset declared his intention to reject the result of the election, therefore he is just playing according to a script by not accepting the results of the election.
“He has impugned the integrity of the EC since the beginning of the year and signaled his unwillingness to accept the results of the poll. So, we all know that he is playing according to a script. And we know that the purpose of his effusions is to court the sympathy of the NDC to put him up again as their candidate in 2024. Well, it is entirely up to him. He said in 2016, that it is elementary politics and an old trick for people who know they are losing an election to seek to impugn the integrity of the EC,” he said.
John Boadu again said that in spite of the lessons the NPP taught the NDC in 2016, the NDC did not have the presence of mind to set up a collation system, adding that,”That is very poor indeed. But what is worse, is the recklessness with which John Dramani Mahama is conducting his political chess game.”
He said again that Mahama asking people to hit the streets for him to be candidate of his party in 2024 whiles his children are protected elsewhere outside the country is irresponsible.
“You cannot endanger the security of our country on the altar of your selfish interest. You cannot be President at all costs. John Dramani Mahama is asking other people’s children to hit the streets for him to be candidate of his party in 2024 while his children are locked away in comfort and luxury in Dubai. That is most irresponsible to say the least,” he stated.
For the parliamentary election, he noted that although the EC has affirmed that indeed, the NPP has the majority of seats in parliament as of now, the NDC continues to insist that they have a parliamentary majority in spite of the glaring fact.
“It is important to remind the NDC that they are not entitled to their set of facts. In an election, pink sheets are the primary documents by which victors and vanquished are decided,” he said.
The NPP General Secretary called on Ghanaians to condemn without reservation, the intransigence of the NDC and urge the NDC to resort to the courts to address their grievances, if they believe they have any.
“We call on the security agencies to be resolute and protect the state. We have confidence that majority of Ghanaians believe in and accept the verdict of the election as rendered by the EC and corroborated by all except the NDC,” he added.
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