The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has denounced President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for using the conference platform to campaign against National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate John Mahama.
Saviour Kudze, the GBA’s public relations officer, called the president’s remarks regrettable and said the association deplored them.
In an interview with Citi News, he stated that the GBA condemns the way Nana Addo urged Ghanaians to vote against Mahama simply because the president had remarked that Nana Addo had allegedly stacked the court with NPP-aligned judges.
The President was criticized by Kudze for raising the subject of the investigations that allegedly connect the former President John Dramani Mahama to the Airbus scandal.
He criticized Nana Addo’s remark and stated that the GBA platform should not be used for political campaigns.
The GBA did, however, add that it would not retract its previous condemnation of Mahama for similar actions in the past.
Nana Addo revealed that Mahama had already lost the 2024 general elections while speaking at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference on Monday, September 11, at the University of Cape Coast.
Mahama wasn’t the ideal leader for Ghana, he claimed.
He claimed that Mahama’s recent tirade against the judiciary was harmful to the nation’s democracy.
He stated that it is an egregious attack on Ghana’s judicial system to refer to judges as NPP and NDC.
At a meeting with NDC lawyers, Mahama accused Nana Addo of putting a lot of New Patriotic Party (NPP) judges on the bench.
He claimed that the President purposefully appointed the most judges to the bench in order to have people who will do his bidding when he is out of office and urged NDC members to “balance out” the bench in his speech at the 3rd Annual Lawyers Conference of the NDC on Saturday, September 2, 2023.
