Press Statement: One Year of the Supreme Court Verdict

PRESS STATEMENT BY GREATER ACCRA NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY CONSTITUENCY SECREATARIES, ON THE ONE YEAR OF THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON ELECTION PETITION

Today marks exactly one year in the darkest history of our country, when the highest court of our land the Supreme Court decided to corrupt the constitutional and electoral integrity of our constitution with the kind of counterfeit verdict they gave when our 2012 Presidential Candidate Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo, Dr. Mamudu Bawumia, the running mate and Jake Otanka Obetsebi Lamptey, the then Chairman of the New Partriotic Party invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to give proper effect and meaning to our electoral laws.

The crust of the Supreme Court case was what the petitioners presented as follows:

1. Over voting,

2. Voting without biometric verification,

3. Absence of the signature of the presiding officer,

4. Duplicate serial numbers, that is to say occurrence of the same serial numbers on pink sheets for two different polling stations,

5. Duplicate polling station codes, that is to say occurrence of different results of pink sheets for polling stations with the same polling station codes,

6. Unknown polling stations, that is to say results recorded for polling stations that are not part of 26,002 polling stations provided by the second respondent in the petition.

Despite the overwhelming evidence at the disposal of the Supreme Court, ‘SHALL’ was no longer IMPERATIVE or MANDATORY but rather DISCRETIONARY. Today is also a day when we were told that OVER-VOTING no longer existed but rather OVER STUFFING and finally a day when we were advised by the Supreme Court to resolve electoral disputes at the polling stations without invoking their jurisdiction come 2016.

Despite this pain caused us, and the extreme anger hatched by most Ghanaians, Nana Addo came to the fray to calm all Ghanaians and appeal to all and sundry to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court. He, Nana Addo, added that even in our disappointment, pride could be taken in the way we conducted ourselves and yet again the fact that NPP has again led the way in deepening Ghana’s democracy. On this fateful day, not to remind us of our sorrow, we salute all Ghanaians.

Now, what do we see in Ghana: poor educational policies resulting in very prolonged teachers’ strikes, poor governance, wanton corruption, extreme economic mismanagement and poor fiscal policies and ruling the country by propaganda resulting in extreme hardships and demonstrations upon demonstrations. Yet the President of Ghana, H. E. John Mahama says and continues to say YENNTIE OBIARA.

Thank God there is a way forward. On Sunday, 31st August 2014 NPP super-delegates will select 5 of 7 presidential candidates one of whom will be elected on 18th October 2014 to represent the NPP. The grassroots cry for one particular candidate who has been loyal to the party and has served the party since the 1990s. He has stood on the ticket of the party on two occasions.

We the Greater Accra Regional NPP Constituency Secretaries Group APPEAL TO ALL THE SUPER DELEGATES to give an EMPHATIC VICTORY to this personality come Sunday, 31st August 2014, to send strong signal to NDC that GHANA is tired of the extreme mismanagement of the country and that we simply want CHANGE.

Thank you.

Long live NPP.

Long live Ghana.

Kukrudu Eshi Rado Rado

Signed

SPOKESPERSONS FOR THE GREATER ACCRA

REGIONAL NPP CONSTITUENCY SECRETARIES GROUP:

1. Dr. Abraham Sagoe, Ablekuma Central Constituency Sec, 0206 52 92 75, 0244 9923 63

2. Wilson Kpakpladja , Adentan constituency Assistant Sec, 0266 66 69 75, 0245 695 307

3. Simon Narteh, Kpone Katamanso Constituency Secretary, 0266 16 75 29