2024 Election: NPP gov’t will hand over peacefully if we don’t win – Justin Frimpong Kodua

NPP General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua has stated emphatically that the party is against violence.

He has assured that if the ruling NPP government loses the 2024 general election, power will be handed over to ensure the country remains peaceful.

“NPP will not wish for violence in this country, we will hand over peacefully if we don’t win,” Justin Frimpong Kodua said in an interview with Adom TV.

This comes on the back of concerns raised about the NPP’s willingness to relinquish power should the party suffer defeat on December 7.

Early this year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stressed that he does not want to hand over to former President and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama.

“This is our election year, and we have the limited registration has started. Anybody who hasn’t registered and is eligible should go and register. This is because your right to vote is your power.

“Also, when the time is up for the voting, our job is simple. The person I defeated and my work, since I took over, seems not to please him, I cannot hand over power to such a person,” President Akufo-Addo said while speaking at an event in Doboro in May.

Addressing this, John Dramani Mahama said thunder will strike anyone who will refuse to hand over power to the NDC if the party wins the upcoming election.

The former president insists that no person but the Ghanaian people must decide who their leaders will be after the upcoming election.

“The people of Ghana are going to decide who their leaders are for the next four years. It is not in anybody’s hands to say that when the people of Ghana have expressed their will for that person to say we shan’t hand over.

“You don’t have that capacity to stand against the people of Ghana when they have said NDC has won the election and you say you won’t hand over. My God, thunder will strike you. There you will see the anger of the people of Ghana,” John Dramani Mahama said.