Eugene Arhin, the Director of Communications at the presidency, has refuted former President John Dramani Mahama’s recent claims regarding President Akufo-Addo’s response to election-related deaths in the December 2020 polls.
The NDC presidential candidate made these claims in a statement on January 7, 2024, commemorating the 31st anniversary of the fourth republican constitution of Ghana. He urged the current government to refrain from actions undermining democratic rights and criticized the handling of the 2020 elections, citing the loss of eight lives.
“On a rather sad note, it is unconscionable that three years after these tragic events, our President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has not uttered even a word of sympathy to the bereaved families. The perpetrators of these murders continue to walk as free men and still hold on to positions of authority and power,” Mahama stated.
In a Facebook post on January 7, 2024, however, Arhin shared a video clip extracted from President Akufo-Addo’s victory speech on December 9, 2020, at his Nima residence. In the video, Akufo-Addo unequivocally condemned the post-electoral violence in Odododiodio and Techiman, expressing condolences for the lives lost and urging efforts to prevent future occurrences.
“Former President Mahama’s claims that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ‘has not uttered even a word of sympathy to the bereaved families’ is simply not true. He should, therefore, do the needful and congratulate President Akufo-Addo on his victory in 2020,” Arhin wrote in his Facebook post.
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