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Press Release
CAN
January 8, 2013
Make your position known, CAN tells
President Mahama
The Conservative Alliance Network (CAN) is calling on Ghana’s
new President, John Dramani Mahama to make his position clear
on the outcome of the petition filed by three leaders of the
New Patriotic Party at the Supreme Court.
It will be recalled that the NPP is at the Supreme Court
contesting the Electoral Commission’s declaration of President
John Mahama as winner of the 2012 presidential election.
The petition has the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the NPP,
Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, his running mate, and
Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, NPP party Chairman, as plaintiffs.
According to the plaintiffs, irregularities recorded during
the elections favored the NDC, noting that 24,000 of the pink
result sheets from some polling stations indicated that those
irregularities were enough to affect the results. The two
respondents in the petition are the Electoral Commission and
President John Dramani Mahama.
In a statement signed in Accra by Mr. Anthony Abotsi, Patriot
Faisal Ibrahim and Edem Agudogo, they challenged the President
to make his position public on “the verdict of the Supreme
Court no matter the outcome”.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said that it will respect
the verdict of the Supreme Court regarding its challenge of
the outcome of the December 7 elections no matter what the
outcome.
The group said they recognized the constitutional obligation
placed on every Ghanaian, especially the President to accept
the verdict of the highest court of the land on such matters,
but “so far the President has remained silent on such a
critical matter”, a development the group said it is
“worrying” and sending the “wrong signals”.
Patriot Faisal Ibrahim
0262232000
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