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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says that the refusal of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to recognize Nana Akufo-Addo as president of Ghana is a sign of anarchy.
The NDC maintained that until the Supreme Court clears President Akufo-Addo of all irregularities, the party will not grant him any respect.
This is part of the NDC’s actions to protest the general election result that they claim was rigged.
The secretary general of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah At a press conference in Accra on Friday, January 8, 2021, he said: “Despite the inauguration of Akufo-Addo as president of Ghana, the NDC will not recognize Mr. Akufo-Addo as the legitimate president of the Republic of Ghana even all problems related to its faulty election have been satisfactorily resolved. ”
But the PNP’s Communications Director, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, insisted that the president has been constitutionally sworn in and should be treated as such.
According to him, Ghana’s democracy resides with the Ghanaians and not with the NDC or any other political party.
Therefore, he insisted that the Ghanaians have decided and that no one can do anything about it.
“The President has been properly inaugurated before the House of Parliament before the President and sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This is what the people of Ghana have decreed through the Ghanaian legal processes and yet the opposition party in the country through its leadership is challenging those institutions to undermine the constitution of the Republic. ”
“That is your choice, and it does not change the fact or change the value of what we have done because the value of democracy still resides in the people of Ghana and not in the leadership of NDC. His comments are totally reckless, which does not represent the views of Ghanaians and not even the entire NDC as a political party. In any case, the NDC is part of the processes in which they participated in the elections and the lack of constitutional respect is anarchy ”.
The NDC has not accepted the outcome of the 2020 general election, alleging misconduct at the polls.
Mr. Mahama has submitted a electoral petition in court requesting, among others, a statement from the Supreme Court to the effect that “the alleged statement of the results of the 2020 presidential elections on December 9, 2020 is unconstitutional, null and void.”
– citinewsroom
