The Eastern Regional Branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have accused the Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin of being biased in his call on President John Mahama to eschew politics of insults and accept the ruling of the Supreme Court on the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) election petition.
According to the group the Okeyehene should have first called the flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo to order before making the same request of the President.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the NDC, Matthew Doe stated that the Okeyehene’s statement to President Mahama “has its own legal connotations for whoever the contending parties but we also know that the Presidency is not the only contending party. We have never heard him call his own son [Nana Addo] who is from Kyebi to give him a similar piece of advice.”
But the Lawyer for the Okyehene, Boateng Acheampong responded that whatever submissions the Okyehene made to President Mahama “was not his personal representations but things that he has discussed with Nananom in the Eastern Region and presented them.”
He maintained that the deductions by the NDC group are wrong as the Okyehene’s submissions were not politically motivated.
Lawyer Acheampong described the statements by the Eastern Regional NDC as “inflammatory statements, they have the potential to expose the Okyehene to public hatred because you know this matter has the potential of dividing Ghana.”
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