Akufo-Addo’s comment on Mahama at the Bar Conference is useless – Bawa Mogtari

Joyce Bawa Mogtari, a special aide to former President John Dramani Mahama has slammed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his comments at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference.

She said the criticism the President Akufo-Addo made in relation to a remark John Mahama had made on the judiciary is useless.

She described the president as someone who is rather promoting corruption and thinking that his comments at Bar Conference will make him look any better.

“An outrightly useless pronouncement from a President who has completely debased the presidency, promoted corruption, politicised the judiciary with pro- NPP appointments and yet thinks making uncouth political statements at a Bar Conference will wash him up,” she tweeted.

Joyce Bawa Mogtari was responding to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s comments at the Bar Conference, which included calling on what he termed right-thinking Ghanaians to ensure that John Dramani Mahama is defeated in 2024.

In his speaking notes at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference in Cape Coast, President Akufo-Addo said John Mahama’s recent outburst on the judiciary is dangerous for the country’s democracy.

He also said the labelling of judges as NPP and NDC is a brazen attack on Ghana’s judiciary.

“Not only are these concepts of “NPP” and “NDC” judges new in our public discourse, they are also extremely dangerous, and represent the most brazen attack on the independence of the judiciary by any allegedly responsible politician of the 4th Republic. They provide another reason, if more were needed, why right-thinking citizens should ensure the defeat in 2024 of the man whom the first Special Prosecutor identified as Government Official No.1, in the still unresolved Airbus Bribery Scandal,” President Akufo-Addo said.

Former President Mahama, speaking at a meeting with NDC lawyers last Sunday, accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of packing the courts with Judges who are members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), addressing the closing ceremony of the 3rd Annual Lawyers Conference of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday, September 2, claimed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has deliberately appointed the most judges to the bench in order to have people who will do his bidding when he is out of office and called on NDC members to “balance out” the bench.

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