Moshake requests Mr. Mahama's suspension for anti-party conduct.
Mr. Stephen Ashitey Adjei, a former executive of the Tema East branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged the party to expel former President John Mahama.
In a three-page petition to the party's executives, which was intercepted by this reporter, Moshake, as he is commonly known, accused the former President of anti-party behavior, claiming that the NDC was destroyed as a result of his conduct, particularly while in office as president.
Moshake wrote, "According to Article 46 of our party's constitution, Mr. Mahama should be suspended due to the cumulative effect of his conduct, especially in office as President."
According to him, the NDC supported Mr. John Mahama's bid for the presidency, and when he assumed office, he made decisions that made the party unpopular, unattractive, and annoying to Ghanaian voters.
"There is no worse form of anti-party behavior than that which makes the party so unpopular that it is swept from power into opposition by the largest margins in our nation's history. Therefore, I propose that Mr. John Mahama be suspended for anti-party conduct."
In 2012, after the untimely death of then-President John Evans Atta Mills, Mr. Mahama became President and NDC leader.
According to Moshake, "due to the efforts of President Atta Mills and the NDC as a whole, we comfortably won the 2012 election.
Four years later, in 2016, we lost the election by a margin of over one million ballots. What happened?" is the query.
The former constituency executive responds to his own query as follows: "I submit that the reason was the anti-party conduct of former President John Mahama.
"Consider how former President Mahama mistreated Ghanaian workers, including former GPHA employees, and capped it all off with a remark about a dead goat, bringing the NDC into hatred, ridicule, or contempt? Moshake authored.
"If none of the above valid reasons constitute anti-party conduct in violation of Article 46 clause 8 (b), then what does?" Article 46 clause 8(b) states, and I quote, "Anti-party conduct or activities likely to embarrass or bring hatred, ridicule, or contempt upon the party."
Article 46 clause 8(a) of the NDC constitution states that a party member may be subject to or made subject to party discipline for breach of any provision of the NDC constitution. According to Moshake, former president John Mahama has violated the party's constitution and should be hauled before the national disciplinary committee of the NDC, suspended, and disqualified as a candidate for the upcoming NDC presidential primary.
"Laws are intended to be obeyed, and as a person of integrity, I am obligated to condemn wrongdoing.
"Ex-president Mahama has made the NDC so unpopular that he could not even solve the Dagbon crises and the party's support in the northern sector of Ghana diminished and the NPP won some of the parliamentary seats in our strongholds, infact, I have petitioned the general secretary of NDC in a letter dated 25th February, 2022 and nothing concrete has been heard because Mahama is a cash cow and has promised some NDC gurus appointments", Moshake stressed.
Moshake added, "Mahama is no more human than Allotey Jacobs and Koko Anyidoho, who were suspended for anti-party behavior; even Donald Trump is being investigated."