NPP Presidential Candidate in the 2012 election, Nana Addo Dunkwa-Akufu Addo has revealed that it was not his ambition to become President of Ghana through the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
He said the reason why he resorted to court was to expose the flaws in the country\u2019s electoral system.<\/p>\n
\u201cGhana came out with her peaceable and democratic credentials enhanced. We proved to the world that we were willing and able to submerge our individual and partisan preferences to the common good. We demonstrated clearly that it was not the ambitions of Akufo-Addo, it was not the fortunes of the NPP that we sought to promote. The stability and progress of Ghana was the paramount consideration that guided our every action in those difficult days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The NPP\u00a0 challenged the outcome of the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court took over eight months to rule on the case with President Mahama being declared the legimately elected president.<\/p>\n
Nana Akuffo-Addo is however unhappy the Electoral Commission has not\u00a0 implemented any of the recommendations made by the panel of judges.<\/p>\n
\u201cGhanaians everywhere should come together, irrespective of our political affiliations, to demand peacefully the best for our country. Going into the 2016 elections, let us demand that the Electoral Commission implements the reforms recommended by the Supreme Court, the Ghana Political Parties Programme (made up of the NPP, NDC, CPP, PPP, PNC, GCPP) and civil society to safeguard and ensure the credibility and integrity of our elections,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He said there was a we need to improve on the electoral process in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strength of any democracy is very much determined by the credibility of its electoral process and it is in everybody\u2019s interest that we all develop an instinctive respect for the rules and regulations set out for our elections,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n