It has emerged that President John Mahama and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo met and had fruitful mutual discussions before the December 7 polls and after the elections to smoothen some rough edges.
The secret and reportedly important meeting was said to have been held at the instance of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II a few hours to the polls.
The Asantehene reportedly called the meeting to help foster peace and unity between President Mahama and Nana Akufo-Addo.
The closed-door meeting reportedly took place at Otumfuo’s official residence at the Manhyia Palace, DAILY GUIDE has learnt.
Outspoken MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, insists that President Mahama lodged a complaint against him (Agyapong) to Nana Akufo-Addo during the said meeting.
Fresh Meeting
DAILY GUIDE has also gathered that President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo and President Mahama again met with Otumfuo last Tuesday.
The latest meeting took place at the Asantehene’s private house at Ahodwo, at about 11:00 pm.
President Mahama, who was returning from The Gambia where he had gone for mediation over disputed election, flew straight to Kumasi where he had discussions with Nana Akufo-Addo and Otumfuo.
Details of the second meeting were scanty, but checks indicate that it was meant to bolster peace between the two dignitaries and their numerous supporters, as well as ensure a smooth handing over process.
Mahama Complaints
Mr Kennedy Agyapong, who claims to have details of the first meeting, said President Mahama made several complaints to Nana Akufo-Addo.
For instance, he said the president complained that he (Kennedy) had threatened to cause the arrest of First Lady, Lordina Mahama, should the NPP win the polls.
Speaking on Adom Television on Wednesday, the Assin Central MP asserted that the president also complained that “I have also threatened to call for the arrest of his brother and one, Ali Seidu, a businessman.”
“Nana Akufo-Addo asked me whether President Mahama’s complaints were true, and I said I have indeed threatened to get the three people arrested,” Kennedy said.
He said President Mahama during the meeting also hinted “about how he had used a lot of resources to get me kicked out as MP during the recent polls, but I still won.”
He made mockery of President Mahama’s complaint about him to Nana Akufo-Addo and Otumfuo, saying the president was scared about his threats.
“I have proved to President Mahama that I am tough. He planned for my defeat in the polls but I won convincingly,” the MP stressed.
The NPP’s candidate Nana Akufo-Addo secured 53.85% as against the president’s 44.40% and over one million votes margin to make Mr Mahama a one-term president in the history of Ghana.
Apart from President Mahama’s humiliating defeat, the NDC also lost about 49 parliamentary seats to the NPP and are now going into the next dispensation as minority in parliament with only 104 seats against the opposition NPP’s 171.
NDC’s Plans
A group calling itself Students Network for Nana Addo (STUNNAD) had alleged that the NDC failed to win the elections because its rigging tactics were checkmated by the NPP.
According to the group, the NDC leaders had relied on their unholy alliance with the EC to rig the elections, asking the outgoing ruling party to explain to the public where its so-called collation centre was located.
He alleged that “the NDC positioned their collation hub into the Electoral Commission’s E-transmitting System and channeled it to their system on the top floor of their new Adabraka office in an attempt to massage the figures as coming from various constituencies before they forward it to EC’s National Collation Centre.”
The group added, “This was how the NDC was planning to rig the election with the EC. Thank God the NPP and the media got the results first.”
STUNNAD wanted to know whether the sets of pink sheets the NDC was going to use to collate the results “were different from the media houses and the rest of the political parties.
Source: Daily Guide
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EC, through Madam Opoku Agyemang has attributed delay in displaying results of the election to the system's failure. It went on to say that the system was so compromised that any figure that was imputed, turned out to be a different one. Well, the bottom of this issue must be gotten to.
There is something wrong with Ken. Even if there was meeting, common sense demands that respect for particularly Nana addo and Asantehene if not mahama, you should keep quiet.
Congrat to all ghanians.Our country remaind peaceful and democracy land.Ghana is not for a party.it is for Ghannians.
Congratulations Nana.Ghanaians voted for you because they believed in you. please let no secret meeting shutter your dreams. Now the game is between you and Ghanaian . Ghanaians are watching.
Congratulations to Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo and the NPP party. The people of Ghana have massively voted for you because you proffered better policies to the people than the NDC did. In the next four years Ghana is expected to see a total transformation: 1. *there must be no dumsor because you have an immediate and lasting solution to the problem* 2. *electricity bills should drastically fall* 3. *there will be no judgment debts* 4. *Teacher trainee allowance will be restored* 5. *The allowance for the nursing students will also be restored* 6. *There issue of graduate unemployment will be a thing of the past. There will be jobs everywhere for the people.* 7. *The taxes on raw materials will see a sharp and significant decline* 8. *All dkm customers will be paid in full* 9. *because Ghana has oil, fuel prices will drastically fall* 10. *there will be no judgment debts* 11. For every district, there will be one factory provided. 12. *There will be FREE SHS.* 13. *When the government constructs roads we shouldn't count them as achievements because that's the government's responsibility* 14. *the cedis will rub shoulders with the dollar.* 15. *For every constituency, one million dollars will be provided* 16. *JHS leavers will perform massively well in the BECE* Mr President Elect, it might be helpful to point out to you that in light of the fact that you won on all university campuses, most of your supporters are intellectuals. Intellectuals who I suppose are very objective and not hypocrites. If at the end of the next four years you do not achieve these promises the thumb that brought u will be the same thumb that will show u the exit. *we do not want any excuses* I repeat *we do not want any excuse
Mahama is a BIG thiefffffff