IBRAHIM ADJEI LAUDS NPP LEADERSHIP

Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com

By William Yaw Owusu

Thursday December 13, 2012.

Ibrahim Adjei, a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) communication team has commended the leadership of the party for not accepting the results that declared John Mahama as President-elect in the just ended general elections.

He said with the overwhelming evidence that suggests that the election was fixed in favour of President Mahama; it would have been dangerous for the party to leave the matter unchallenged.

The NPP yesterday officially said it would not accept the presidential results declared by the Electoral Commission (EC) Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan which put President Mahama at 50.70 percent, thus giving the ruling NDC a first round victory.

The party said it was gathering all the evidence to enable them petition the Supreme Court for redress.

He told Daily Guide yesterday that if the NPP does not pursue the matter to its logical conclusion it would undermine the democratic gains made so far in Ghana.

“If our leaders allow President Mahama and his NDC’s massive fraud perpetrated on the Ghanaian voter to stand, Ghana’s democracy will rot,” he said, adding “we are hopeful the courts would give the NPP a listening ear in this matter.”

He said the Electoral Commission’s posture in the declaration of the result in spite of the NPP’s challenge that it had gathered evidence that needed review, clearly showed that the EC was deliberately imposing President Mahama on Ghanaians.

He said that what the NPP is seeking to do is not to insist that the party’s candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should be President at all cost, but rather to help strengthen failing institutions such as the EC as its conduct on December 7 clearly showed that the commission is not up to task.

“We believe we are doing something that would inspire confidence in the system. The outcome of our challenge whether successful or unsuccessful would send signals out there that there is always the need to resort to seek redress instead of using violence to seek redress.”

“It would show the rest of Africa that you can use the courts to seek redress without taking up arms.”

Ibrahim Adjei said what the EC and the NDC have colluded to do is “a rape on our democracy” which must not stand, adding “if we don’t stand up now we will never succeed as a country.”

He said there was “a systematic, deliberate and coordinated manipulation of the process and that “affected the outcome of the election and thus renders invalid the results as declared by the Chairman of the Electoral Commission on Sunday the 9th of December.”

He said the party had abundant and incontrovertible evidence that the votes for President Mahama were “fraudulently inflated in many constituencies and the votes of the Presidential candidate of the NPP on the other hand were reduced in many instances.”