The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has condemned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for using its conference platform to campaign against former President John Mahama.
The aspect we condemn has to do with his appeal to Ghanaians by way of campaigning of a sort to vote against Mahama just because he made a comment that President Akufo-Addo has allegedly packed the court with NPP-aligned judges as described by President Mahama.”
“And also bringing up the issue of the investigations allegedly linking former President Mahama to the Airbus scandal
Our platform is not supposed to be used for that and then we condemn that leg of President Akufo-Addo’s comment
The GBA, however, added that it would not apologize to Mahama, as it had only condemned him when he had done the same thing in the past.
Akufo-Addo had earlier on Monday strongly criticized Mahama for his recent remarks alleging that the judiciary had been packed with judges aligned with the ruling NPP party.
The GBA said it shared Akufo-Addo’s concerns about the independence of the judiciary, but that it did not agree with his methods.