Akufo-Addo: Why This Huhudious pomposity?

By Cletus Abaare

“You

ought never to turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from

it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and

without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half”.

The above commonsensical statement is

not in anyway to entice unprepared minds into reading this article but it is

one of the most valuable assets, my poor father (call him a watchman like an

irresponsible MP did some months back) left for me before he passed onto the

silent world of no return.

It has been my guiding angel in all my

endeavours in life. It has given me an immeasurable courage to face what I am

facing today as a journalist who seeks justice rather than pride. I mean not

praise singing so loud somebody’s name to blot my stomach with some coins.

Seen? Call it a bluff.

For sometime now I have decided to rest

my pen off commenting on some issues mistakenly or rightly happening in the

country and had tied my poor eyes with a thick black cloth to help keep my

thinking veins away from worries from any irresponsible activity or speech from

any person.

But lo and behold, the continual naked flame

set ablaze after the general elections has gutted down my concealant; leaving

my eyes standing above their sockets and my veins madly awaken to a voice of a

call. A call that has given me a mixed feeling. A feeling of sadness and a

feeling of happiness.

Sad because sometimes, one's education,

age, social standing, profession, job placement, etc; you are tempted to put

them in the class of the 'success stories of our race' of our time. However,

happiness because the attitude of such people we turn to esteem so highly in

the society and can hold accountable in

trusted public offices seem to suggest that 'caution' must herald any such

assessment irrespective of their pretended

manners.

Happiness for this important and timely

revelation of the sort of people who were seeking and dying to lead this

country. I am talking about the struggle to the presidency. The John Mahama’s

and the Akufo-Addo’s open battle which was witnessed by all Ghanaians and the

international community.

The attempts to have innocent blood wash

down our streets and badly shaped roads. The voluntarily calling and endorsing of

war in the country called Ghana; my Ghana, your Ghana and our Ghana. If you are

the post-independence born children call Her, the Osagyefo Nkrumah’s Ghana. This

needless and shameful calling for war by

the known three individuals and some NPP’s charlatans is not welcome by thinking

cells. I don’t care about what you think or want. Call me whatever, I will

still stand grounds.

And sadly but not weirdly, Akufo-Addo is

the leader of that war drumming group. The loss presidential Candidate of the NPP

in the 2012 general elections. You may have your own view of him- but to me- he

is a complete disappointment, a bore and a pitiful threat to our democracy and

more importantly the people of Ghana.

Why

does he and his bloodthirsty cohorts have to be so blazingly in a hurry to demonstrate

that he is up to the task of chasing innocent people out of the country to our

neighboring war-tore countries as refugees? Maybe saying “keep off, I am Mr. Justice,

see no evil of my actions but praise sing my name as the lover of justice”. Who

is he trying to scare off? What a shame?

Ghana has an elected president for the

next four years if my knowledge in our 1992 constitution, the supreme law of

our land is right. Per the lawyer he claims to be, I have no doubts that he

knows too well that the Supreme Court is not a Kingmaker and therefore cannot

in anyway impose him (Akufo-Addo) on me, the proud son of a watchman or anybody

as Ghana's President.

My little knowledge about the law is

that the Supreme Court will at its best interpret the Constitution and the CIs

to find out whether the Electoral Commission performed its statutory functions

as spelled out under the Constitution. And if it is satisfied that the EC did

so, no amount of prayers or evil tactics will prevent the court from ruling that

the 2012 elections were clean as commended by the numerous observers across the

world. This is a common fact to Ghanaians and Mr. ‘Justice’ Akufo-Addo must

ready to endorse or go and burn the sea.

Akufo-Addo and his lawyers are calling

on the supreme court of our land to annul some votes they believe were

illegally cast by Ghanaians in certain areas in the country and declare him, the

NPP’s retired twice defeated presidential candidate as duly elected by

Ghanaians as president. They alleged that those illegal votes per their ‘water-tight

evidence’ only benefited the NDC and the declared president, John Mahama.

How they got to know that those votes

they called them ‘votes without verification machines’ were cast in favour of

the NDC is yet a mystery to be unraveled. I do not know where world’s super

seer is but I doubt if he can see to extend of how Akufo-Addo and cohorts can

do.

Putting it plainly for the understanding

of the ordinary voter, Mr. ‘Justice’ Akufo-Addo is asking the Supreme Court to

invalidate 4 million of the 11 million votes

cast at the elections and declare him as the legal winner of the Presidential

elections.

‘Justice’

Akufo-Addo’s illogical but legal thinking as they refer to it, is that the

Supreme Court will therefore assume the status of the Electoral Commission sanction

by the 1992 Constitution to conduct, oversee and declare all public elections

in the country and disenfranchise legal voters votes cast under the scorching

sun and declare him winner of the 2012 presidential elections.

According to them this case before the supreme

is devoid of logical thinking but rather full of legalities and achieving this

will make our democracy great and strong. What a fantasy, a mockery of democracy,

shambolic thinking.

According to article 46

of the Constitution “Except as provided in the constitution or in any other law

that is inconsistent with the constitution, in the performance of its

functions, Electoral Commission, shall not subject to the direction or control

of any person or authority”, so

on what legal basis

will the Supreme Court as an authority in this sense control the EC and

pronounce the NPP’s presidential candidate as a winner of the elections?

On what basis that the

request by the NPP to annul legal votes cast without a verification machine

strengthen the country’s democratic credentials?

In the estimation of all those who

monitored the elections have tagged this elections as one of the best elections

ever held in the African Continent and have described it as free, fair,

transparent and credible elections. So how can the Supreme Court blame the EC for

‘Justice’ AKufo-Addo's defeat because it did what the Constitution asked it to

do?

Strange enough, after bragging to have “water-tight

evidence" that could shock Ghanaians to their bones, the NPP had the

shambolic gut to demand for documents from the EC to support their petition.

Thankfully the court in its wisdom denied them.

If by my understanding,

the NPP led by ‘Justice’ Akufo-Addo would want anything at all should be a strong

demand for electoral reforms as advanced by some political watchers and not the

magical overturning of the elections results.

This can be a fair call

to improve our electoral process because no general elections held anywhere in

the world are without problems, being conducted by human beings—and we know

that perfection is not a human quality’. And this is not the duty of the Supreme

Court.

The Supreme Court is

there to interpret the Constitutional provisions against the background of the

NPP’s allegations to tell us whether the EC fell out of step or not. And

therefore will examine all the evidence to be made available and determine the

case within that ambit to see which Constitutional provisions were flouted or

adhered to.

So Justice Akufo-Addo why this huhudious

posture? Why are you departing from the battle is the Lord’s and now calling

for mayhem on the citizens of Ghana?

I think it is time you throw in the

towel in matters of these. It is a fruitless journey that is only aim at

disturbing the peace of the country. You were not born to president. Period.

You repented from ALL DIE BE DIE AND AT ALL COST TO THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S.

why can’t you agree to verdict of the LORD’S?

Our

LORD Jesus Christ- threw a challenge to a crowd that was filled with the same

spirit that is moving you to throw your weight about- "Let him/her that

has no sin; cast the first stone". Maybe the difference between that crowd

and you- is that, they understood Jesus very well, honestly fell convicted,

threw away their stones; and before Jesus could lift up his head- quickly

retreated and vanished from the scene.

It is irresponsible for people like you

to start behaving violently to the detriment of the innocent. May the God of

heaven or Allah- have mercy upon you. The wise and enlightened of our race know

and do better than this. Yours is the basest of human drives- hypocrisy;

gangsterism interference in the work of the constitution; we are against it. Your

experience and education should lift you above this shallow ground- not so?

People of your status, are supposed to

be, paragons of virtues, wherever they find themselves. They are supposed to

help the ‘hot-heads’ found in all human institutions to calm down.

"A good name is better than

riches" (so says the Good Book)! Do not allow yourself to be reduced to a

mere tool in the hands of politics for the destruction of the poor innocent

citizens. I think your age, education; training and maybe religion (if you have

one) should place you above violence and disgrace.

I

shall return