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Ghana Election 2020: A battle of records will decide if NPP or NDC? - ‘Nana Addo, Toaso’ (continue) and ‘JM, Sanbra’ (come back)

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 ACCRA24.COM 0

Over the weekend, former President John Mahama (JM) simply drowned his opponents in a political tsunami during the National Democratic Congress (NDC’s) presidential primaries, leaving them flailing and gasping for precious oxygen. 
 
 Of course, any casual observer of the primary’ campaign knew what was coming, including, I am sure, his opponents. 
 
 Perhaps their only hope was that the inevitable blow would be merciful and delivered in a velvet glove. 
 
But the party spoke emphatically with an iron fist devoid of the niceties of even a flimsy paper glove.
 
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Candidate Mahama, obvious choice</h3>
Truth be told, the NDC really had no choice other than JM because he was their most visible and best-known candidate. 
 
 Some argue that it is likely the NDC will lose the 2020 election and that the party will struggle to win 2024 with a new face.

After all, since 1992, every incumbent party has enjoyed no less than two terms, and no fresh opposition candidate has ever won the presidency in a first attempt. 
 
 But, I am sure the general thinking in the party, quite understandably, is that there is always a first time, that JM is their best shot for now, and that should they get to that bridge in 2024, they will cross it. 
 
 The fact that constitutionally, he would only be eligible to serve one term if he wins the 2020 election, seemed to be far away from the minds of the over 213,000 delegates who donated their thumbprints to him last Saturday.
 
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Election 2020</h3>
I believe Election 2020 promises to be an exciting campaign, akin to a ‘Thriller in Manilla’ or ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ affair, to borrow from the screaming media headlines of the frenzied boxing heyday of Mohammed Ali, Joe Frazer, George Foreman et al. 
 
 We will, for the first time in our electoral history, be witnessing a presidential election battle between a former and an incumbent president.

It couldn’t get juicier than this. The former president is not amused over the fact that he lost his job. 
 
Now he wants it back.

And I do not blame him for wanting to be our first Comeback President.

After all, he holds the unenviable record of being the first incumbent President in this country to lose a re-election bid, and by such an embarrassingly huge margin. 
 
 Among others, he must want to wipe that ugly blot off his otherwise star-studded political CV which saw him rise from MP through to Deputy Minister, Minister, Vice President and then finally President. And so, he will go into the election with all that he can muster.
 
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Battle of records</h3>
Indeed, I believe the Election 2020 campaign has just begun-that is, if it did not begin on January 7, 2017 right after the inauguration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Cynics argue that this country is in a perpetual campaign mode because every decision or step by government and opposition is directed at the next general election. 
 
 I am excited about the 2020 campaign for the simple reason that neither candidate can make lofty promises to us without a reference point-that reference point being their own four-year records as President of this country. 
 
 On the economy, education, health, employment, security and a host of other indicators, we, the citizens, must demand of them what they did during their four-year tenure. 
 
 That would help us to decide between ‘Nana Addo, Toaso’ (continue) and ‘JM, Sanbra’ (come back). Simple.

Dirty politics?

Of course, there will be some for whom an issue-based campaign is an anathema. 
 
 They would prefer to wallow in the cesspit of dirty, ugly ethnocentric politics and divisiveness, pitching one ethnic group against the other.

Others would find refuge in distributing money and all manner of cheap items in a squalid to clinch the election. 
 
 It will be naïve to pretend that this will not occur, or that it will not make some impact on the electoral outcome. 
 
 But we can, and must, rise above ‘Moneycracy’ and ‘Ethnocracy’. 
 
 We have carried alcohol, and we have carried water, as our elders put it. We must strive to be more discerning. 
 
 The 2020 clash must be of ideas and records, not of ethnicity or money.

Or come to think of it, of macho men, boots, guns or slaps.

We have a nation to build.  
 
 Source: <a href="http://ghanasky.com/" rel="dofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GhanaSky.com - Columnist Rodney's Potpourri</a>

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In a press release, the police indicated the four suspects alleged to be part of an NDC vigilante group, Hawks, were behind the attack. 
 
The suspects are Husein Barnabas, also known as Warrior, Mijima, Damos, and Abu Taliban. 
 
This search comes after some executive and members of the NDC were attacked at the regional office in Kumasi on February 18. 
 
According to an eye witness, the assailant, associated with an NDC militia, the Hawks, shot another NDC man thrice; first in the leg while he runs and twice in the chest at close range as he lay vulnerable. 
 
Zainab Suleman, the mother of the deceased, told Joy News she looks up to Allah for strength, thanking the whole country for the support so far. 
 
“I pray that Allah strengthens, blessings and protect the youth in this country from such attacks…,” she said. 
 
Mohammed Iddrissu, the brother of the deceased wants government and security operatives to ensure that they get justice for Abdul Wasiu Iddrissu. 
 
“People should not be allowed to hide behind any party to do the wrong thing. A crime is a crime and those in authority must ensure justice is served,” he said. 
 
Meanwhile, Ambrose Derry, the Interior Minister has assured that the police will expeditiously investigate the murder. 
 
He said the issue will be treated as a criminal one and the perpetrators will be brought to book. He is, however, cautioning against reprisals. 
 
According to him, the incident provides an opportunity for all political parties to work together to stop political party vigilantism. 
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Former President John Mahama has been hit with yet another lawsuit four days to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) presidential election slated on Saturday, February 23, 2019. 
 
In the latest lawsuit sighted by citinewsroom.com, a former Secretary of the NDC in the Trobu constituency in Accra, Edmund Palmer is seeking to restrain Mahama from contesting in the party’s upcoming presidential election. 
 
Edmund Palmer in his writ wants the court to stop Mahama “from pursuing his bid to be elected as a flagbearer/presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress in his capacity as a former president of the Republic of Ghana, without the permission of Parliament.” 
 
He is also seeking “an order of perpetual injunction restraining John Mahama from purporting to seek re-election howsoever as president of the Republic of Ghana without the permission of Parliament pursuant to Article 68(2), 68(3), 68(4), 68(5), 68(6),68(7) and 68(9) of the 1992 Constitution.” 
 
The former NDC Trobu Secretary also wants the court to order John Mahama “to wind up the activities of his campaign office that was established for the purpose of seeking to coordinate his activities in his quest to become flagbearer/presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress.” 
 
He further wants Mahama to stop all fundraising activities in support his re-election bid without the permission of Parliament. 
 
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Earlier in the week, one Stephen Agyeman dragged Mahama to court with the view of stopping Mahama from seeking re-election. 
 
In his writ, Stephen Agyeman argued that Mahama’s re-election move violates the 1992 Constitution and he is thus asking the court to stop the former president from contesting in the NDC’s presidential election. 
 
Mr. Agyeman is seeking a declaration to the effect that John Mahama “cannot purport to seek re-election as President of the Republic of Ghana” pursuant to Articles 68 clauses 2 to 9 of the Constitution. 
 
 
 
Agyeman is also urging the court to declare that John Mahama is not qualified to stand re-election as president of the country. 
 
“A declaration that pursuant to Article 66 (1) and 66 (2) of the 1992 Constitution, the defendant is not qualified as a candidate to stand for re-election as President of the Republic of Ghana on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.” 
 
According to Agyeman, because John Mahama enjoys some privileges as former President, raising funds to support his bid for the presidential ticket of the NDC, without the permission of Parliament, he “has contravened Article 68 (2) of the 1992 Constitution.” 
 
Source: citinewsroom.com

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