Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otukonor has said that the move by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako to challenge former President Mahama’s eligibility to contest 2020 general election shows how ignorant he [Boasiako] is.
Mr. Antwi Boasiako who is popularly referred to as ‘Chairman Wontumi’, has initiated moves aimed at preventing former President Mahama from seeking another term in office.
According to Chairman Wontumi, Mahama has already served two terms in office in line with what the 1992 constitution prescribes and therefore another term in office would be his third, which he claims was against the constitution.
But speaking on Happy FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ show, the deputy chief scribe of the NDC said, Chairman Wontumi should be ignored.
“Forget Wontumi he doesn’t know what he is doing, when we talk of law, what does he know. Six months administration led by Mahama prior to contesting in the 2012 general elections was not part of his term but rather a continuation of the late President John Atta Mills’ term. Anyway, anyone can go to the Supreme Court for interpretation of something he or she does not understand.”
However, lawyer and governance expert, Dr. Eric Oduro Osae, has said his reading of the law makes it clear to him that ex-Presidents John Mahama, John Kufuor and John Rawlings can all contest for the high office of the land again if they want to.
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah