John Mahama can't hope to win elections on basis of natural justice – Nana Akomea

Nana Akomea

Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea says President John Mahama's submission that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) deserves a second term as a matter of natural justice is disappointing.

“Ghanaians do not choose their leaders according to natural justice,” Nana Akomea said, “but on the basis of your record.”

President John Mahama at the Special National Delegates' Congress of the NDC where he was endorsed as the party's flag bearer for the 2012 elections, said since 1992, every government has served two terms and that it was only fair and just for the current NDC government to enjoy same .

But Nana Akomea says those were totally inappropriate comments for the president to make.

He said if the NDC believed that a second term was a matter of course and natural justice, why did it wage a fierce campaign in 2004 in an attempt to unseat then President John Agyekum Kufuor who had just served one term from 2001 and 2004.

Touching on the president's statement that the December polls will not be an all-die-be-die affair – a direct allusion to the comments of NPP flag-bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo for which he has come under a lot of flak – Nana Akomea said he agreed completely with President Mahama.

He, however, maintained that if you have instances where NDC supporters publicly fired shots at NPP supporters at the Chereponi by-election with security agencies watching and doing nothing, then it becomes difficult to trust the president when he says the elections will be peaceful.