Former President John Dramani Mahama is harming his worldwide standing after his refusal to acknowledge defeat after the December 7 presidential election and furthermore neglecting to demonstrate whether he will go to court to look for review, Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), has said.
Dr Aketwey clarified on the Key Points program on TV3 Saturday, December 19 that Mr Mahama had the option to assemble a decent picture for himself inside the worldwide network when he acknowledged the results of the 2016 elections and furthermore assisted the Gambia and other West African nations to manage issues influencing decisions and results and acknowledgment.
Be that as it may, in his view, the lead of Mr Mahama after the 2020 elections is disintegrating every one of these additions.
He told host of the program, Abena Tabi that “The approach individuals from the NDC to exhibit should be perceived and regarded however it additionally must be practiced inside the law so the Police will give them the security they need and agitators won’t get in, etc.
“In exhibits, you generally have individuals who may not be identified with the NDC getting in to cause devastation. That is the thing that I mean by the specialists of incitement who may get in and make such an issues. They may come from vigilantes, so you quit going onto the roads.
“I think at this stage, from what I am gathering the exhibition without notice to the police and the responses and the consistent refusal or the postponement in saying, we will not go to court and calling your individuals out onto the roads particularly after you sign a harmony agreement I believe is harming.
“It is harming to the worldwide remaining of Former President Mahama particularly on the grounds that in 2016 he surrendered and despite every one of his reservations, he drove ECOWAS to go to the Gambia and manage issues influencing races and results and acknowledgment.
“He was exceptionally basic in Burkina Faso when the military interceded and he was profoundly lauded for that. In light of that position, his worldwide remaining as a man who regardless of everything would clutch the popularity based standards, harmony and dependability, he has been driving one mission after the other.
“So this time has befuddled many. There have been calls from companions who are stating what has prompted this? This is the man we turned upward to.”
As far as it matters for him, a Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, said on the very show that the road fights by the primary resistance National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the aftereffects of the 2020 general races which the gathering lost, won’t accomplish anything,
He clarified that the constitution of the Republic of Ghana illuminates what a wronged individual in a political decision ought to do in case of the individual can’t help contradicting the consequences of a political decision as announced by the Electoral Commission.
The active Member of Parliament for Tempane told have Abena Tabi that “The contention of the NDC is that the victor ought to have been His Excellency previous President John Mahama. That was not allowed by the EC. The EC proceeded to pronounce what were the arrangement of realities to them after resemblance of the relative multitude of 275 voting public the nation over.
“At that stage, when you are wronged by the direct of the Electoral Commission and you need the outcomes upset, the roads won’t help you to topple the outcomes. Allow us to get that principal right.
“In the event that they feel that truly they have a case that is the reason everyone is stating on the off chance that you need the political decision results as has been paper to change in support of yourself, the lone discussion where you can express your complaints and get the issues managed will be the Supreme Court appropriately comprised.”
Then, the General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said the methods by which the gathering will go to court to challenge the aftereffects of the official and parliament races are being hindered.
He revealed to TV3’s Komla Klutse in a meeting that the gathering is being denied admittance to some pink sheets, the essential records whereupon the political decision results were announced, to empower them to assemble their case for conceivable court activity.
“We need to make sure about the methods for going to court. Indeed, even the methods for going to court and getting the opportunity of winning is as yet being hindered by the despot.
“So for what reason would you like to go to court when the individual who realizes that when you go to court you will require A, B, C thus we are obstructing your methods for arriving so you can’t go to court. And afterward toadies will be sitting outside and yelling go to court.
“On the off chance that we need to go to court about Techiman, we can simply go to court to challenge the consequences of Techiman as proclaimed. We are being denied even the chance of locating what results were proclaimed when the law gives us a privilege to a duplicate,” he said.
The primary resistance has been encouraged to resort the court to address its conflicts with the consequences of the races.
For example, US Ambassador Stephanie S. Sullivan met with previous President John Dramani Mahama who was the official possibility for the NDC scarcely seven days after he dismissed outcomes
The US Ambassador likewise met Mr Mahama’s running mate in the races, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, at the gathering on Thursday, December 17.
They “examined the new decisions”.
The US agent is said to have encouraged not just the 2020 Presidential Candidate and Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) yet in addition every single ideological group “to seek after lawful channels for any constituent questions and to safeguard the harmony in Ghana”.
Since Mr Mahama’s authentic dismissal of the political race results, which proclaimed occupant Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as champ, his allies have held dissipated exhibits the nation over.
On Thursday after a gathering of allies showed close to the central command of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), 26 of them were captured by the police.