NPP's election petition is to seek for power-sharing - Ade Coker

Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Ade Coker, has disclosed that the petitioners’ aim of going to court is to seek for a power-sharing deal; therefore, any suggestion of such an alternative will be giving to the petitioners what they truely want.

Mr. Ade Coker disagrees with the Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, Most Reverend Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle that there should be ‘power-sharing’ for the next three years irrespective of who wins the election petition case.

Palmer Buckle adding up to recent calls by individuals and organizations including the National Peace Counsel, as a way of lessening the political tension in the country.

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra is reported to have said “whoever the August 29 judgment will favour, should draw members from the losing party to form a government that will steer affairs of the nation until the 2016 general elections.”

But speaking on Adom FM, the former Vice Chairman of the Ghana Football Association rubbished the call for a unity government (Power-sharing) as a sign of maintaining peace after the verdict.

He claimed part of the reasons why the NPP filed the election petition suit is to seek for a “power-sharing” governance.

“After the election (2012 presidential election) that is what they (NPP) were aiming at. That is why they have gone to court to create a situation where they will say power-sharing. And I heard his eminence Palmer Buckle also calling for power-sharing in the next three years; to me I think he (Palmer Buckle) is not helping the situation.

“…If the case is in court, let’s us wait for the verdict from the court…but we seem to be throwing some mantra into the system to tie the hands of the nine judges hearing the case. This kind of thing is not good for the system. Let’s put power-sharing into the dustbin of history,” he stated.