John Mahama Bites Akufo-Addo

“God Hates Arrogance”

By A AYayra


In yet, his strongest response to the defeated Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo DankwaAkufo-Addo’s cliché of electoral fraud, President John Dramani Mahama has warned the leader of the biggest opposition party to repent and stay away from arrogance.


Ghanaians had the luxury of hearing President John Mahama; for the first time after the elections respond formally to Nana Akufo-Addo, albeit outside the confines of the Supreme Court in the way that best depicts the opposition leader’s peculiarity when he charged him to humble himself.


Addressing a large congregant of excited and milling Muslims, including ambassadors from Islamic countries and eminent Muslims on the occasion of the birth day of the Holy Prophet Mohammed (Mawlid an-nabi) at Fadama, in Accra, the President was spot on when he maintained that “it is important that as human beings, we humble ourselves because Allah/God distaste arrogance,” adding that anybody who is conceited will be ‘dropped’ down on earth by God.


Indeed, in one of his public pronouncement after the election, the NPP Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo Addo noted that “under it all is one sacred principle that in a democracy, the people who cast the votes must have their voice prevail and not those who count, collate or declare it.”

Obviously responding to Nana Akufo Addo’s charge of electoral fraud in the just ended election, which according to many National Democratic Congress supporters was long overdue, President Mahama, speaking in Huasa noted that, whiles it is true that it is the people who decide who they want to lead them, it is Allah/God Almighty who ultimately determines who should be King.


Sounding philosophical and biblical, President Mahama said “it is true that it is human beings that go to queue to vote, but it is God who has the final say on who governs at any given time”. He added that “whatever God has sown no amount of drought can wither it”.


Though Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP themselves, prior to the elections christened the political battle ahead of them as that of the Lords’, the party, immediately after the election results announced by the Electoral Commissioner did not favour them, moved the battle to the streets, unleashing attacks on innocent Ghanaians, and have since sought refuge at the Supreme Court.


What seems to have surprised many, especially Christians, was when Nana Addo stated that it was the voice of those who cast the votes that was sovereign in the contest of a thriving democracy


However, President Mahama as Nana Addo, himself a Christian, seems to be reminding the NPP candidate, who obviously, is yet to come to terms with the election results of these biblical quotations; “Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain”, Psalm 127:1 and Mattew 5:9 “Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God”.

The Annual Commemoration of the Holy Prophet Mohammed's birth day is a social and religious gathering aimed at giving the audience and participants an accounts of the sacred life of the Holy Prophet Mohammed so as Muslims could emulate and follow his steps in other to better their relationship with the Al-Mighty Allah


President John Mahama used the occasion to advise all, particularly politicians to eschew lifestyles that the Supreme Being abhors and stated he has been thought throughout his life to be humble and show respect for one another, irrespective of their ethnic or political inclination because that is what God wants every man to do.


President Mahama, after winning the December 2012 election has been labeled a thief by the NPP, apparently due to the party’s claim that the Electoral Commission cooked the election for him; therefore, they are in court challenging the results.


The President, though has been at the receiving end of insults and several injurious allegations, he until two weekends ago has not publicly responded to any of the NPP’s claims to the chagrin of many of his party supporters, who thought he should have reacted to some of the insane things being said about him in the media.


But his latest admonishment proved that President Mahama has had enough of the NPP, ably led by Nana Akufo-Addo’s constant reference to him as a fraudster without any cogent evidence backing it.

The conduct of the NPP after the election has left many well-meaning Ghanaians of various faith wondering whether the party just used the name of the Almighty God as bait to cow electorates and when that didn’t yield the exact results they needed, they are now dilly dallying at the Supreme Court.


The NPP rejected results of the 2012 election on the grounds that figures for President Mahama were inflated at collation centres while those for their own presidential candidate were reduced to favor the incumbent president.


Prior to the party filing a petition at the Supreme Court, aggrieved supporters of the NPP massed up at the Obra spot at Kwame Nkrumah circle protesting the results, out of which they beat up Journalist and vandalize vehicles perceived to owned by sympathizers of their political archrival.