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With just a day to the 2016 General Elections a new attack has been launched against the New Patriotic Party’s Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

According to a group called Good Government Advocacy Group Ghana, the NPP’s leader played a role in creating judgment debts and the payment of huge amounts to various companies or individuals as a result.

They issued a press statement regarding the role of the New Patriotic Partys involvement in creating and paying several cases of judgment debt including the Isofoton case the Drillship scandal and Delta foods.

Led by some NPP activists who have been vocal against Nana Addo’s candidature, the leader of the group Listowel Nana Poku Baah Achamfour and Charles Macarthy petitioned to the Electoral Commission seeking clarification on the status of the NPP Flagbearer as a Presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.

According to them “The NPP has criticized aggressively the NDC administration’s handling of this line of expenditure on various occasions in the public domain and fed the impression that they are beyond reproach pristine and spotlessly clean regarding the creation and payment of judgment debt. This is a deliberate distortion and an obvious lie. This is a blatant misrepresentation a brazen deflection and a shameful effort to hoodwink the unsuspecting Ghanaian public concerning the NPP’s extensive role in causing financial loss to the state.”

“The list of acts deliberate omissions and intentional ineptitude inefficiency lack of proficiency amateurishness inadequacy clumsiness and shocking inadequacy by the new patriotic party is equivalent to a level of incompetence never before seen in the political administration of Ghana.

“As a matter of fact this deficiency is not only restricted to the NPP as a whole but extends to their current flagbearer and presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as all of you will soon see and hear.” The petition reads

The Petition was delivered to the Electoral Commission on Saturday 3rd November 2016 around 6pm - citing several constitutional provisions and the White Paper on the Judgment Debt Commissions Report.

The group is asking the Electoral Commissioner Mrs. Charlotte Osei to determine the eligibility of Nana Akufo Addo as a candidate since by the adverse findings in the white paper against him he is disqualified from contesting the Presidential Elections.

See some extracts from the press statement below…

BY OPERATION OF LAW AND CONSEQUENT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE 1992 CONSTITUTION THE CANDIDATURE OF NANA AKUFO ADDO AS AN APPROPRIATE COMPETENT AND ELIGIBLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IS CONTENTIOUS DOUBTFUL UNCERTAIN AND DEBATABLE.

DUE COGNISANCE OF THE FACT THAT ADVERSE FINDINGS AGAINST THE NPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE NANA AKUFO ADDO WERE MADE BY THE JUDGMENT DEBT COMMISSION IN THE REPORT REFERRED TO SUPRA AS TO HIS CONDUCT IN SOCIETE GENERALE (SG) V. GHANA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (GNPC) CASE[ AKA THE DRILLSHIP SCANDAL] WHERE HE WAS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEFAULT JUDGMENT TAKEN AGAINST THE STATE RESULTING IN AN AMOUNT OF 47 MILLION DOLLARS JUDGMENT DEBT SUBSEQUENTLY IRREGULARLY
COMPROMISED AND SETTLED FOR 19.5 MILLION DOLLARS AND WITH REGARD TO NANA AKUFO ADDO’S CONDUCT IN THE . Delta Foods Ltd. v. Attorney-General CASE WHERE NANA AKUFO ADDO WAS CITED FOR CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE. THE RELEVANT EXTRACTS ARE REPRODUCED BELOW:

i. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, HON. NANA AKUFFO ADDO, FAILED TO BRING TO THE ATTENTION OF THE LONDON HIGH COURT, THE SETTLEMENT ATTEMPTS. IT WAS THIS FAILURE THAT LED TO THE ENTRY OF THE US$47 MILLION DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST GNPC.

ii. IT WAS THIS FAILURE THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR SG TO DEMAND MORE THAN THE US$14 MILLION DOLLARS THAT THEY HAD EARLIER ON AGREED TO ACCEPT AS FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE SUIT.

iii. THE PAYMENT OF US$19.5M INSTEAD OF US$14 MILLION EARLIER ON AGREED CONSTITUTED FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE CORPORATION AND GHANA. V. GOVERNMENTAL INTERFERENCE IN THE RUNNING OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE GNPC ACCOUNTED TO A LARGE EXTENT FOR THAT FINANCIAL LOSS.

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I. THE US$4.9 MILLION PAYMENT AUTHORIZED BY HON. NANA AKUFFO ADDO AND PAID TO THE SOLICITOR FOR DELTA FOODS LTD., HON. PETER ALA ADJETEY, CONSTITUTED A HUGE FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE.

WHILE THE GOOD GOVERNANCE ADVOCACY GROUP GHANA WILL LEAVE THE POSITION OF NANA AKUFO ADDO TO THE APPROPRIATE INSTITUTIONS OF STATE TO CLARIFY WE CALL ON THE ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER AS THE RETURNING OFFICER AND HEAD OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO DECIDE THE UNCERTAIN FATE OF THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE NANA ADDO DANQUAH AKUFO ADDO AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE TO AVOID ANY FUTURE PROTRACTED LITIGATION OVER HIS STATUS AND ELIGIBILITY AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE 2016 NATIONAL ELECTIONS.

FINALLY LET IT BE AS CLEAR AS GLASS AND CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE GOOD GOVERNANCE ADVOCACY GROUP GHANA BEING COMPOSED OF DUTIFUL AND LAW ABIDING CITIZENS IS MERELY OPERATING UNDER AND COMPLYING WITH ARTICLE 41 (A) (b) AND (I) OF THE 1992 CONSTITUTION