- “You have the evidence that will make your case strong in court. You left that evidence in the house ... and you are organising a press conference. Then what was the basis for going to court?”
The Bono regional chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, has said that the former president John Mahama could be suffering from what he describes as “political bipolar”.
During his recent “thank you” tour, the 2020 National Democratic Congress flagbearer alleged that the Electoral Commission padded the presidential vote in the December 2020 election with one million fake ballots in favour of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Speaking on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (11 November), Abronye DC questioned why the former president had failed to present evidence of vote-padding in court during the 2021 election petition hearing.
“What is wrong with you?”
“I heard him [Mahama] yesterday saying one million-plus votes were added to that of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, [plus] stolen ballot papers here and there.
“You filed a case at the Supreme Court; you are the petitioner of that case. The so-called one million votes that were added to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s votes: you had the evidence, but you failed to mount the witness box,” Abronye said.
He added: “Then there is something wrong with you. If you are not suffering from bipolar, then I don’t know what to say.
“You have the evidence that will make your case strong in court. You left that evidence in the house, you didn’t send it to court, and you are organising a press conference. Then what was the basis for going to court?”
Investigate claim of vote-padding
The Electoral Commission has called on the police to investigate claims by John Dramani Mahama that the Commission engaged in vote-padding in the 2020 election.
Speaking at a briefing in the Commission’s “Let the Citizen Know” series in Accra on 25 October, the deputy chairman in charge of corporate services at the EC, Eric Bossman Asare, challenged Mahama to provide evidence to substantiate his claims.
“The former president has said the EC computed one million ballot papers in favour of the president [Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo]. This is untrue. This is a great matter that can undermine the credibility of our electoral process and should not be ignored,” Dr Bossman Asare said.
“We call on him to provide evidence to support this claim. This is not a matter that should be ignored. And we call on the Ghana Police Service to investigate.”
He added: “The transparency of our process makes this impossible to happen.”
Fred Dzakpata
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