The
Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ade
Coker has described the opposition New Patriotic Party as “bad losers”,
claiming that there is a certain tradition in the party that has called for the
recent election petition.
Speaking
on Peace FM, Mr. Ade Coker stated that the idea of the NPP to pursue their
election grievances in court is because the party cuts across two sides.
He
explained that the NPP is divided among itself in two factions, which is the “Ashanti mafia
and the Akyem mafia.”
He
said the historic background of the party has shown that the “Akyem mafia”
group does not accept electoral results unlike the other faction which has
always lived above the possibilities of challenging election results in the
court.
He
alluded to the well-known book “Stolen verdict” authored by the late Professor
Adu Boahene which sought to specify some electoral flaws when the NPP lost the
1992 Presidential bid and former President Kufour’s three time acceptance of
electoral results from 1996 to 2004.
He
was therefore of the view that the Akyem faction does not accept electoral
results.
“For
the Akyem mafia, when they don’t win elections, they will go to court” he
stated.
He
also questioned the NPP over its election petition at the Supreme Court, asking
if they “had won the elections, would you be in court today? Would you come and
tell us, ‘pink sheets, I was not there and you were not there’? Bad faith, bad
faith; you are bad losers.”
He
defined their petition as an “academic exercise because of the bad faith these
people (NPP) have and the fact that they are not good losers.”
Source:
Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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