The presidential candidate of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor, has issued a legal threat against former President John Dramani Mahama.
Akua Donkor plans to sue Mahama, who is also the flagbearer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), seeking clarification regarding his recent remarks suggesting that some candidates in the upcoming 2024 elections should not have been approved by the Electoral Commission to run.
In addition, she accused Mahama of being involved in the death of former President John Evans Atta Mills, calling for a judicial investigation into the matter.
During her address at an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on October 15, 2024, she stated,
“I am going to sue him for two trillion. Did he give me money to form my party? I didn’t even know him at the time. Why would he say that they shouldn’t have qualified me? Why, am I not a human being?
“And am I not from Ghana? I am telling you that I am taking him to court. EC, her deputies, I will provide you with a letter. I am also a human being from Ghana.
“His representative who just spoke, you heard him saying that some of us who came here should not have even been allowed to come here. He will prove that in court. He is not even clean. I know him very well; he had a hand in Atta Mills death, so I will take him to court.”
On Sunday, October 13, John Mahama criticized the Electoral Commission for disqualifying Bernard Mornah, the flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), from the 2024 presidential race.
During a durbar in Nabullo, Sissala East, in the Upper West Region, Mahama contended that some candidates allowed to contest the elections do not measure up to Mornah, whom he sees as a more formidable competitor.
“The PNC is a more worthy party than several parties that I see on the ballot paper, but that is the issue with the EC. Sometimes they are discriminatory because there are some people on this ballot paper who Bernard Mornah qualifies more to be here than them,” he said.
While Mahama refrained from naming specific candidates, Akua Donkor has claimed that she was among those he was indirectly referencing with his remarks.