Akua Donkor to drag Mahama to court, seeks GH¢2 trillion in damages over derogatory comment

The Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) presidential candidate, Akua Donkor, has threatened to sue former president John Dramani Mahama.

According to Akua Donkor, the potential suit will demand an explanation from Mahama, who doubles as the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), over his recent comment that some of the 2024 presidential candidates shouldn’t have been qualified by the Electoral Commission to contest the election.

She also accused John Mahama of having a hand in the death of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, hence the court must probe.

Addressing the floor during an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on October 15, 2024, she stated, “I am telling you today, that former president John Mahama, if he claims that he is president, I am taking him to court.

“I am going to sue him for two trillion. Did he give me money to form my party? I didn’t even know him at the time. Why would he say that they shouldn’t have qualified me? Why, am I not a human being?

“And am I not from Ghana? I am telling you that I am taking him to court. EC, her deputies, I will provide you with a letter. I am also a human being from Ghana.

“His representative who just spoke, you heard him saying that some of us who came here should not have even been allowed to come here. He will prove that in court. He is not even clean. I know him very well; he had a hand in Atta Mills death, so I will take him to court.”

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John Mahama, on Sunday, October 13, criticised the Electoral Commission for disqualifying the People’s National Convention (PNC) flagbearer from the 2024 race.

Speaking at a durbar in Nabullo, Sissala East, in the Upper West Region, Mahama argued that some of the candidates allowed to contest do not measure up to Bernard Mornah, whom he considers a more formidable opponent.

“The PNC is a more worthy party than several parties that I see on the ballot paper, but that is the issue with the EC. Sometimes they are discriminatory because there are some people on this ballot paper who Bernard Mornah qualifies more to be here than them,” he said.

Although he did not mention any names, Akua Donkor insisted that John Mahama was referring to her among the people he accused.

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