Former President John Mahama
Former President John Mahama
loves unnecessary controversy. That, of course, informed his decision to recall
matters pertaining to the elections which ousted him in 2016 with a disturbing
twist.
The 2016 election results were
so emphatic that arrangements to ensure he stayed in power, come what may,
including electronic transmission of results failed. Now that he thinks that
there was a variation in the mode of transmission of results, the belated
disclosure triggers a question as to how long he is going to sulk about the
results.
The coincidence of thought
between him and Charlotte is instructive. Whereas he is blaming his defeat on
the use of a manual mode of result transmission and a hacking of the system,
Charlotte on the other hand told Ghanaians as they waited anxiously for the
announcement about who had won the polls that their system had possibly been
hacked.
Whatever it was about the
synchronizing of their concerns, we are constrained to wonder why after the duo
decided on what caused his defeat he in particular did not go to court as the
New Patriotic Party (NPP) did when they were denied the win by the Supreme
Court decision by a slim vote and she did not order a probe into her so-called
hacking of the EC system including her hallucinatory over-voting in the Ashanti
Region.
If fighting Amadu Sule and the
others was more important in her estimation, we the people of Ghana also
consider a probe into her so-called system hacking and the Ashanti Region
over-voting vital. She preferred assigning blames without going further to
probe them. Now that she is not in a position to order such a probe, we think
that an apology to Ghanaians for the ruses she put out during those momentous
hours of waiting for her announcement would be a desirable show of courtesy
under the circumstances.
Former President John Mahama’s
demand for a probe is rather belated and should have been done earlier and not
directed at Jean Mensa, the lady at the helm.
Mr. Mahama has so soon
abandoned his solace that his defeat was an act of God so that, as he put it,
Ghanaians would be able to differentiate between his ‘good governance’ and the
current order.
We thank God that Charlotte did not make good her plan to have results transmitted electronically. The fallouts from the arbitrary decision would have been anything but in the national interest. When the finger of God is involved in an enterprise not even the uncharted electronic transmission mode of election results can favour manipulators. We are unable to resist asking as the former Director of Elections of the NPP did, what motive was lurking in the conscience of those gunning for the electronic transmission of results in breach of an earlier agreement by stakeholders?
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