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In 2013, when the William Atuguba panel of judges of the Apex Court returned a verdict of 5-4 in favor of the outgoing president, namely, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, the secretary general of the then ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr Johnson Asiedu-Nketia had previously sheepishly confessed to the talk show host of an Accra radio station that it was in fact the then candidate Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who had won convincingly the 2012 presidential election. The man, also known as “General Mosquito,” due to his nervous physique, added that Nana Akufo-Addo lost the election because her polling officers and his appointees had not been vigilant enough to ensure that their kleptocratic counterparts in the Mahama camp, including most likely the dynastic secretary general of the Democratic National Congress himself, would not prevent the victory of the gaping jowls from the defeat.
The gaping jowls of defeat clearly referred to interim president John Dramani Mahama, who appeared to be groping well with the presidency, following the abrupt and seismic death of President John Evans Atta-Mills, whose disappearance in the former Danish fort. in Osu, Accra, the dead president’s second in command had warmly celebrated in a nationwide multicast, like the one that had been expediently ordered by Divine Providence who, according to former Communications Minister Rawlings, had prophetically intended the Bole- Bamboi, Savannah Region, native will ascend to the presidency as the first postcolonial ruler born of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana. The man who gravely mismanaged the country for around four and a half years has yet to brief Ghanaians on the full range of obscure circumstances in which his then immediate boss was killed. He had not indicated whether Mr Mahama had requested and read the autopsy report of the coroner of the 37th Military Hospital before announcing the tragic news of President Atta-Mills’ death in the country.
To this day, vigorously challenged to declare the role he might have secretly played in the apparent assassination of his former boss and immediate predecessor at the palace, all that the 2020 Democratic National Congress presidential candidate has shyly said is: President Mills. Which, of course, leaves open the crucial question of who really killed the former tax law professor at the country’s flagship academy, the University of Ghana. And, oh, we almost forgot to add the fact that following the statement by the incumbent Chairman of the Election Commission, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, of the incumbent Chairman John Dramani Mahama as the winner of the 2012 presidential election, Mr. Asiedu-Nketia had categorically observed that Dr Afari-Gyan, also a former political scientist at the University of Ghana, had come to an agreement with incumbent President Mahama to launch the final result of the 2012 presidential election in favor of the man. who had actually been defeated.
In recent weeks, the former Rawlings-appointed deputy defense minister has tampered with the land claim claiming he has never made a public statement indicating that a presidential election has been blatantly called in favor of the land claim. man he chose to become the star witness during the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2020 presidential petition. Either way, what is important to stress here is the fact that, even as current President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently told a crowded House of Parliament, in 2013, the Supreme Court legal group chaired by Atuguba gave up the blade. thin edge margin of verdict of 5 to 4 in favor of Mr. John Mahama. At the same time, Supreme Court jurists who ruled on the presidential election petition filed by Akufo-Addo in 2012 authoritatively observed that, according to their most generous estimate, Mr. Dramani Mahama would not have won that year’s presidential election by more than 50,000. The latter figure represents about 10% of the more than 500,000 votes by which incumbent Akufo-Addo predominantly defeated the same Democratic Congress presidential candidate that then-candidate Akufo-Addo ruthlessly routed in the 2016 presidential election.
In their petition verdict for the 2020 presidential election, Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, chaired by a panel of 7 Apex Court arbitrators, delivered a unanimous decision. Simply put, 7-0 verdict in favor of incumbent Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Now, what this latest ruling or verdict clearly means is that the 2020 Mahama presidential petition was absolutely devoid of merit. The Kingmakers of the National Democratic Congress of the National Party Executive Committee and the so-called Functional Party Executive Committee had better think three times, at least, before sacking the most complete corrupt postcolonial Ghanaian leader, according to the immortalized words of l ‘former president. Jeremiah John Rawlings, as the 2024 presidential candidate.
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Department of English, SUNY-Nassau
Garden City, New York State
March 13, 2021
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