FGJ responds to NPP

FGJ responds to NPP’s solidarity Vigils and gatherings

“Justice emanates from the people and shall be administered in the name of the Republic by the Judiciary which shall be independent and subject only to this Constitution” – Article 125(1), 1992 constitution.

The Forum for Governance and Justice by this statement wishes to condemn in very certain terms the posture, utterances and undertakings of the New Patriotic Party.

The NPP purports to have resorted to the Supreme Court to seek justice. Resorting to the Court and seeking justice from the Court’s Justices was a loud statement of the party’s inability and incapacity to render or deliver justice to themselves. It was also a gesture of the NPP’s confidence in the Supreme Court’s ability and capacity to dispense justice as they prayed.

We therefore find it rather nauseating and repugnant that the NPP would seek to define what constitutes justice to the Court and the judges who they have resorted to for a just determination of their pleadings as encapsulated in their election petition.

No litigant in any legal proceeding has neither a moral nor legal authority to determine what justice is! That determination remains the exclusive constitutional mandate of the Court. The sustenance of Ghana’s peace should therefore not be dependent on the verdict of the Supreme Court whom we have confided in to deliver justice.

It only smacks of hypocrisy and not democracy for the NPP who seek to define justice in this case as a declaration of Mr. Nana Akuffo Addo as winner of the 2012 Presidential elections.

We also consider such behavior, planned vigils and various gatherings of solidarity for the NPP’s General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie and Mr. Hopeson Adorye not only as hypocritical, undemocratic and comtemptuous to the Supreme Court but a shameful failure on the part of the petitioners who constitute the NPP leadership. The above unwarranted actions and others like prescribed attires of red and black are nothing but acts of terror and intimidation which must be looked upon with disdain.

We therefore call on all the peace loving Ghanaians to stay calm and steadfast in prayers as Ghana awaits another success in her democracy.

Signed Signed

Mr. Robert Afulimi, Mr. Daniel Thiombiano Lompo,

Dir. Of Communications, (024-820-8127) National Organizer, (024-528-0025)