Pro-democracy group, Respect My Vote Movement has called on the international community and the citizenry to boycott the swearing-in ceremony of the incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo describing him as an illegitimate president-elect.
It follows reports that President Akufo-Addo will be sworn in for a second term of office on Thursday, January 7, 2021.
According to the group, the fact that Akufo-Addo was invalidly declared winner, the inaugural ceremony has for the first time been confined to the chamber of parliament with the deployment of 6000 security personnel to provide security for fear that Ghanaians will protest against the inauguration.
A statement issued by the pressure group on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 and copied to the Awake News said “Our advise to the international community and well meaning Ghanaians is to boycott the ceremony to ensure that they don’t participate in this unconstitutionality and the installation of a modern day dictator who has subverted the constitution against the sovereign will of Ghanaians with the help of the Electoral Commission”.
The credibility of the results released by the electoral management body has also been questioned by some observers following the revision of the total valid votes declared by the EC on December 9, 2020, where EC Chairperson, Jean Mensa, announced wrong figures.
In same vein, the leadership of the NDC rejected the results and now seeks redress in court. The petition filed by the presidential candidate of the NDC, John Mahama, seeks the annulment of the declaration of Akufo-Addo as the president-elect by the electoral commission.
“It would be recalled the Electoral Commission of Ghana declared Akufo-Addo winner of the 2020 Presidential election and said declaration is fraught with several errors and therefore invalid. An analysis of the figures show that Akufo-Addo did not obtain the required 50 percent plus 1 vote. In effect the Electoral Commission manipulated the figures to declare Akufo-Addo the winner. The results are therefore being challenged at the Supreme Court”, the statement read.
Read the full statement below:
Press Release
Boycott the Swearing-In of Akufo-Addo – Respect My Vote to the International Community
Accra, 5th January, 2020-Pro-Democracy Group Respect My Vote Movement has called on the international community and well-meaning Ghanaians to boycott the swearing in ceremony of Nana Akufo-Addo describing him as an illegitimate president-elect.
It would be recalled the Electoral Commission of Ghana declared Akufo-Addo winner of the 2020 Presidential election and said declaration is fraught with several errors and therefore invalid. An analysis of the figures show that Akufo-Addo did not obtain the required 50 percent plus 1 vote. In effect the Electoral Commission manipulated the figures to declare Akufo-Addo the winner. The results are therefore being challenged at the Supreme Court.
To confirm the fact that Akufo-Addo was invalidly declared winner, the inaugural ceremony has for the first time been confined to the chamber of parliament with the deployment of 6000 security personnel to provide security for fear that Ghanaians will protest against the inauguration.
Our advise to the international community and well meaning Ghanaians is to boycott the ceremony to ensure that they don’t participate in this unconstitutionality and the installation of a modern day dictator who has subverted the constitution against the sovereign will of Ghanaians with the help of the Electoral Commission.
Respect My Vote Movement
Akalilu Samed 024 317 3375
Stephen Kwabena Attuh 024 371 8353
Ama Owusuah Boateng 024 579 8712
Gabriel Osei Owusu 024 314 4983
