We are ready to work with the opposition in parliament -John Boadu

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced its readiness to collaborate and work with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 8^th Parliament which begins on January 7, 2021.

The NPP came to this decision owing to the closeness of the parliamentary vote at the recently held elections.

The party’s General Secretary, John Boadu, addressed the press yesterday at Asylum Down, Accra and made this pronouncement.

“The closeness of the parliamentary vote is Ghanaians way of telling us to collaborate and avoid the adversarial politics that has characterised most of our Fourth Republican politics.

“We accept that challenge. We shall work with the Minority for the interest of the country,” said John Boadu.

At the end of the polls, the Electoral Commission (EC) put out that the NPP had won 137 and NDC had won 136 seats out of the total 275 constituencies, with an independent, and Sene West being outstanding.

Both the NDC and the NPP claim to have won some constituencies the EC declared for their respective opponents. As such, they have vowed to contest those seats in court to overturn the decision of the EC.

Addressing the media yesterday, John Boadu felt it was “important to state that we [NPP] also dispute the results of some parliamentary results. But we have not asked our supporters to go on the streets to protest these results. Our lawyers are putting our evidence together to go to the courts to challenge them. That is the way of the democracy that we have fashioned for ourselves. No other way works. Ghana shall not burn on account for one person’s selfish interests.”

In all these, the NPP, which believed its opponent had no case, has also dared the NDC to put out its numbers for the presidential ballot if they have any.

He demanded of the NDC, as the latter appears to have disputed what the EC has put out, disputed what CODEO has put out, and disputed what all media houses have put out.

According to John Boadu, on the part of the NPP, the election was over and they had set up their transition team, and were moving on with the business of governance, adding that “the NPP shall not be distracted.”

The NPP says the votes difference between the two candidates – 517, 231 – and the percentage points scored by the candidate of the NPP, was one of the highest since 1996, as such, there was no contention about that.

To the NPP, Mahama, who had from the onset declared he was not going to accept the results of flawed elections, had impugned the integrity of the EC, thus “he is playing according to a script.”

The NPP also claimed Mahama’s intention was to court sympathy of the NDC to put him up again as their candidate for the 2024 elections.

The NPP has also added its voice to the numerous calls from civil society organisations, the clergy and others on the NDC to resort to the court system to seek redress, if they believe they had any.

“We call on Ghanaians to condemn, without reservation, the intransigence of the NDC, and urge the NDC to resort to the courts to address their grievances, if they believe they have any. We call on the security agencies to be resolute and protect the state. We have confidence that majority of Ghanaians believe in and accept the verdict of the election, as rendered by the EC, and corroborated by all, except the NDC,” John Boadu opined.

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