MAHAMA MISSING AT NDC VICTORY RALLY

President John D. Mahama

Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com

By William Yaw Owusu

Monday December 24, 2012

President John Dramani Mahama was conspicuously missing at what can be deemed as a hurriedly arranged victory rally of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Trade Fair Site in La, Accra on Saturday.

The NDC was forced to issue the directive to party executives nationwide through its General Secretary Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, to celebrate the controversial declaration of Mr. Mahama as President-elect by Electoral Commission Chairman Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, after allegations that the December 7 general election was fixed in the NDC’s favour.

At the time the rally was going on, the President was said to be making preparations to fly to South Africa for a private visit deemed to be a holiday.

Indeed, a communication from the presidency signed by John Abdulai Jinapor, the President’s spokesperson, later confirmed DAILY GUIDE’S suspicion.

According to John Jinapor’s statement, the President was expected back in Accra on Sunday December 30, 2012 and therefore will spend the traditional Christmas holidays outside the country.

The statement said, Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur in the absence of Mr. Mahama shall; in accordance with Article 60(8) of the constitution, act as President during the period that the President will be away.

PEACE AND INSULTS

Since the results was announced, the opposition has resorted to seeking legal redress after they claimed Dr. Afari-Gyan unjustifiably gave the elections to the NDC.

Nana Akufo-Addo-led NPP has been using dialogue to explain their side of the story to religious bodies and other civil society organizations.

It is clear everybody wants peace in Ghana but what happened at the NDC victory rally leaves much to be desired.

At a time when everybody in the country is crying for peace, that was the avenue for NDC gurus to rain insults on the opposition for not accepting the election result even though the same NDC never accepted the 2004 election results which gave then President John Agyekum Kufuor a second term in office.

Speaker upon speaker took turns to taunt and denigrate the NPP particularly the personality of the party’s candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Gurus including party Chairman, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, Asiedu-Nketiah aka General Mosquito, National Organiser Yaw Boateng Gyan, Sam P. Yalley among others attended.

Yaw Boateng Gyan who prior to the election had been exposed in a secret recording for plotting with NDC foot soldiers to infiltrate the security agencies did not understand why Nana Akufo-Addo should talk about his nefarious activities.

He warned the NPP flag bearer to stop associating his (Gyan’s) name with violence or else he (Akufo Addo) will urinate in public just as he was rumoured to have done near a mosque in Gonjaland last year.

He claimed that the NPP’s defeat which is a subject of contention was signaled by Nana Akufo-Addo’s fall on stage during a rally in Kumasi in the run up to the elections.

The NDC National Organizer also said that the electorate did not vote the NPP into power because God did not create their flag bearer to be president. 

Although the late President Mills would have sought a second term in office at the same age like Nana Akufo-Addo had the law professor not died, General Mosquito said that the NPP candidate could not have been president because he was too old to do so.

He said Nana Akufo-Addo had no business contesting the election because he was the eldest among the candidates.

Asiedu-Nketiah  said the “class mates” of the NPP candidate have now graduated to the Council of State and urged Nana Akufo-Addo to do same.

He taunted the NPP saying the NDC under President John Mahama was magnanimous and had reserved a seat for Nana Akufo-Addo as a Council of State member but he must first shirk his “all-die-be-die” comment and the free SHS mentality.

Sam Pee Yalley also claimed that the NPP’s decision not to accept the December 7 verdict showed the opposition party is violent.

He said once all the parties signed the peace accord in Kumasi before the elections, the NPP should have accepted the flawed polls.