Martin Amidu has claimed that former President John Mahama’s advice to Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga following his defeat in the country’s election was cynical.
Mr. Mahama advised aggrieved Odinga and his party to go to court for justice after they raised concerns over the results of the elections which declared victory for President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kenya’s Supreme Court has subsequently annulled the results of the polls describing it as flawed.
In a statement on the development, Mr. Amidu said the former Ghanaian leader thought the court would have merely affirmed the victory of the President since he had “benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013”.
“Coincidentally, the head of a group of the election observers is reported to be our own John Dramani Mahama whom activists of free, transparent and fair elections, and anti-corruption crusaders had accused during the 2016 Presidential election in Ghana of using his appointment powers under Articles 43 and 70 of our Constitution for a rigging agenda. Having won the 2012 Presidential elections by a razor thin edge vote of the Ghana Supreme Court, he was cynical in advising the losing party in the Kenyan elections to concede defeat or challenge the results in the Kenyan Supreme Court, in the belief that once incumbent Presidents are declared winners of an election their Supreme Courts normally docilely endorse the declarations of the Electoral Commission even in the face of the glaring rigging of the election.
“John Dramani Mahama had benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013 and cynically thought his good friend, the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, whom he had invited as the special guest of honour during Ghana’s independent Celebrations in 2016, would have the benefit of the docility of the Kenyan Supreme Court just as he was the beneficiary of Ghana’s razor thin edge Supreme Court decision in 2013. I also have no doubt that John Dramani Mahama’s cynical advice to Mr. Odinga was informed by past decisions of the Kenyan Supreme Court where incumbents have been declared winners of the Presidential elections and his personal experience in Ghana,” Amidu wrote.
Source: Starrfmonline.com
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AMIDU PLEASE DONT OPEN YOUR MOUTH AGAIN. WHAT IS LEFT IN UR MOUTH ARE ALL T R ASH. DO U EXPECT HIM TO TELL HIM TO GO AND FIGHT THE WINNER? I NOW UNDERSTAND YOUR PROBLEM WITH PREZ MAHAMA U JUST HATE HIM. ''NEA NYAME AHYIRA NO NO NA WA HYIRA NO'' GET UR MOUTH OFF HIM PLS
Whaaaat!!!what is this man saying? Mahama should have advised Odinga to go fight on the streets? what a shame.I really don,t expect this from a lawyer like Martin.
Oh master for this you are far gone. GREEN EYE PAAA BI THIS.
AMIDU, JEALOUSY GO SHAME!! THE PERSON GOD HAS BLESSED, NO MAN CAN CURSE!! JM YOU BE GUY WATI!!U ARE GIVING AMIDU NIGHTMARES EVERY NIGHT!!
He had wanted JM to incite Rails for the street. This is what you call skin pain.
Listen to how ***barred word*** PAA is talking as if being jealous and hatred of someone is wisdom.
Vindictive Martin Amidu is a disgrace. Pure hatred for JDM. So you wanted JDM to tell Raila Odinga to cause civil unrest instead going to court as rightly advised by JDM? Did Mr. Thabo Mbeki too? There is a saying that a flie that does not heed to advice always gets buried with the corpse. I want to plead with JDM never to reply this lunatic and jealous Amidu. He thinks he knows more than every one in Ghana. If you had conscience you would not have served in an illegitimate military goverment of J.J.Rawlings who brutally murdered people and forced many into exile.Did Rawlings usurp power from Liman who legitimately won power democratically? Where lies your self righteous!! God will deal with you one day. ***barred word*** man...
In as much as I didn't vote for Mahama, I now feel Amidu is jealous of the achievements of his northern counterpart. Such official hatred is uncalled for. And now Martin is insulting Ghana's Supreme Court for not going the way of Kenya highest court? I'm really surprised that Amidu has descended so low. Listen, after the elections, Ghanaians don't care how Mahama lives his life. We care about our bread and butter from the government. That will form the basis of our next election not how you persecute Mahama. After all you have received your cake and your mouth is full so you have no defense for the down trodden in society.
And so Martin you are now saying Ghana's Supreme Court stole the verdict for John Mahama in 2012 elections? I guess you're so jealous of John Mahama or you might have lost your mind.
What mandate does an election observer have? What else could an election observer have offered by way of advice? 'Go and fight' or what? Amidu has lost his mind. This is beyond jealousy and or envy.