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The editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has asked former President John Dramani Mahama to challenge the verdict of the 2020 presidential election in the Supreme Court if he disagrees with the outcome.
Abdul Malik Kweku Baako said that “this is the only legitimate way to kill the [alleged] mischief that he [Mr Mahama] is complaining. “
The comment follows several accusations made by the NDC against the Electoral Commission (EC) and the ruling New Patriotic Party (PNP).
According to the NDC, the EC contacted the NPP to annul the results of the surveys that have just ended.
The party’s presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, also in a press release after the EC declared President Akufo-Addo the winner of the presidential race, described the elections as “flawed and fictitious.”
According to him, the data available to his party in the 16 regions of Ghana show that he had won the 2020 presidential elections and that any other pronouncement by the EC was evidence of manipulation of figures.
On the above basis, Mr. Mahama has rejected the election result.
However, in response to Mahama’s assertions, Kweku Baako Jnr said that although the NDC presidential candidate can use various legitimate means to register his discontent, the best option is to seek the services of the Supreme Court.
“Anything else Mr. Mahama does; Demonstrations, hunger strikes, everything, although legitimate and democratic, do not replace the judicial determination regarding the statements of the EC ”, he said.
In addition, he recalled the events of 2012 when President Akufo-Addo asked the Supreme Court to challenge the outcome of that year’s elections and noted that “that particular experience informed the improvement and progress that the country has made in its architecture. electoral”.
“It is quite an ironic situation that now the tables have turned and President Mahama has to go to court,” he said.
“In fact, he was the beneficiary of a similar incident in 2013 during the election petition when he was a incumbent and President Akufo-Addo, Bawumia and others were disputing the election results, and we all saw what happened.
“Hopefully he will do the same because it will improve the democratic dispensation that we have given ourselves in recent years,” he added.
