The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Germany Chapter is fighting the Germany chapter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over unsavory remarks made by some key persons in that party.
According to a press statement issued and signed by the NDC Germany Chapter Secretary, Desire Aliebakaa, “the statement put out by the NPP Germany branch is very unfortunate and distasteful”.
He said the NPP has failed to understand the point that the Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Jean Mensah in her frivolous zest to steal and declare the just-ended elections for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo committed significantly unpardonable fundamental mistakes and oversights much to her own chagrin and that of the NPP.
“The total vote percentages should never have exceeded 100% and thus her hushed declaration of the presidential results was terribly flawed and not authentic. We therefore, do not need the actuals of our internally collated results to disagree with the results of the EC.
The NDC Germany Chapter is struggling to understand why the EC will inflate collated results to favor a ruling regime overwhelmingly rejected by the people at the polls.”
Padding votes
Mr Aliebakaa like many Ghanaians believes that the EC padded votes to favour a rejected candidate Mr Akufo-Addo is not just a mark of incompetence but unethical means to subvert the will of the people and compromise Ghana’s enviable democracy.
“What Nana Boateng and his NPP Germany Branch Communications outfit has failed to note is that should the NDC decide to go to the Supreme Court (SC) has been demanded by them, our case will be basically about additions and subtractions (purely arithmetic) unlike the NPP in 2012, who asked the court to annul votes because there were over voting, none signing of pink sheets among others”.
He stated that the NDC’s case is that per the figures collated from the over 38,000 plus polling stations as captured on the pink sheets (the primary data), the declaration by the EC is unconstitutional or wrong.
For the EC to admit that “The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission inadvertently used 13,433,573 as the total valid votes cast while the total valid votes cast is 13,119,460” should inform Nana Boateng and his outfit that there is cause to worry.
Mr Aliebakaa wished that “NPP Germany branch understood their 2012 petition, their write up would have been different. Unlike their NPP 2012 petition, the Supreme Court this time round will be called upon to do a simple addition and subtraction to determine whether the EC was right or wrong.
There will be little or no room for interpretation of the constitution. The dynamics of our petition and that of the NPP is fundamentally different”.
It is very unfortunate and ridiculous that our counterparts, the NPP Germany branch don’t know that supreme courts don’t decide winners in elections, he added.
“This is the mandate of the Electoral Commission. Hence, it is our duty as stakeholders in the election to ensure that the EC acts properly than running to the Supreme Court”.
Take a clue from Nana Obiri Boahen
The NDC hopes that NPP Germany branch will take a clue from their Deputy General Secretary (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen who scored that their party was in haste when it petitioned the Wenchi High Court to injunct the declaration of the results for the Sene West Parliamentary elections.
According to him, “their loss in the court case was largely as a result of their ‘rush’ to seek legal action even when the Electoral Commission had not acted on the results collated from the various polling stations in the Constituency”.
Consequently, their party lost the filing fees, legal fees and had GHS 20,000.00 costs slapped on them by the Court for wasting their time.
Indeed, any idiot can go to Court and an idiot has gone to court and has suffered the consequence of foolishly going to court.
“If our leadership decides to go to court, we will go well prepared. It is very unfortunate to attack the personality of Lawyer Annan and not the import of his message.
We live in a developed world and at least, our attitudes and political discourse should be issue based and not this pedestrian attitude”.
He concluded: “Let our experiences in Germany help us to speak truth to authority for the good of Ghana. The NDC will push for institutions to work independently and for the interest of Ghana and not that of any individual or political party”.
African Eye Report
