Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko
A private legal practitioner and an influential member of the NPP, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has urged former President John Dramani Mahama to eat the humble pie and concede defeat, if he has no evidence to support his vote-rigging claims in the December 7 elections.
Mr Mahama, the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), is yet to accept the declarations made by the Electoral Commission because, in his view, the EC manipulated the results in favour of incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
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Mr Otchere-Darko, in a tweet, said Mr Mahama has been deceiving his supporters to think that the elections were rigged because he has no evidence to support the allegation.
“Dear John, if you know you don’t have the evidence to go to court please concede now.
“Stop deceiving your supporters before any gross harm is done. You know it! The real contestation is on parliamentaries. Both NPP and NDC believe they have cause to challenge a few declared seats,” he said.
NDC protesters
Meanwhile, some 30 supporters of the NDC, who protested at the precincts of the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters in Accra last week, have been arraigned before court and granted bail.
They appeared before Adjabeng Court in Accra on Friday.
Some NDC supporters marched to the premises of the EC to register their displeasure against the outcome of the 2020 polls last week Thursday.
The supporters, according to the police, were arrested for blocking major roads leading to the Commission.
Counsel for the accused persons, Francis Zavier Sosu, in an interview with the media, said “they are supposed to reappear on January 25, 2021.”
“They were arraigned before the court on three charges: conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and failure to notify the police. They pleaded not guilty to all the counts. The bail is GHS 10,000 with one surety each. We are currently working to execute the bail for them,” the lawyer said.
Meanwhile, the NDC says the action of the police will not deter its members from protesting the outcome of the election.
The Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Peter Boamah Otokunor, said: “We are just about starting because the law allows us. We only have to make it as peaceful as possible.”
“If the police service will continue to present this level of brutality, the citizens will be forced to resist and that is when they will start to protest violently.”
“But we will call on the IGP to put some level of restrain on his men otherwise, he will be forced to resign,” he added
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