By
Margaret Jackson
Those
who thought Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the twice unsuccessful presidential
candidate on the ticket of the NPP, had a solid case in his misadventures
petition case challenging the results of the 2012 Presidential Election got the
biggest shock of their lives when the Supreme Court threw away the bogus case.
The
jubilation that erupted in Accra and other parts of the country was beyond
measure as the petition case had kept a stranglehold on the country for eight
long months leading investors who want to come to Ghana holding onto their
purses.
The
petition case which has led to Ghana’s cedi bleeding badly against other
currencies especially the dollar has not helped President Mahama who has spent
eight months of his presidency in court.
President
John Mahama won the 2012 Presidential Election on a clean slate, but Nana
Akufo-Addo who could not face the shame of losing the election to the former
who campaigned for only three months refused to concede defeat, alleging that
there were malpractices and irregularities.
Akufo-Addo
then proceeded to the Supreme Court (SC) with a litany of allegations including
over voting, voting without biometric verification and unsigned pink sheets
among others.
But a
bizarre thing happened in court when lawyers for Akufo-Addo in their pleadings
asked the SC to throw away more than 4 million votes in order to pave the way
for Nana Akufo-Addo to become president, even though they were not able to prove
their case with one solid witness apart from the pink sheets they bundled to
court.
Another
thing that did not sit well with the respondents in the case was the fact that
the so-called pink sheets sent to court by Akufo-Addo to buttress his case came
from only strongholds won by President Mahama.
It
has therefore come as a welcome relief with the dismissal of the bogus case
which has now given life to the President Mahama to carry on with his vision
till 2016.
No comments :
Post a Comment