{"id":706427,"date":"2019-09-16T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/16\/ghana-has-a-problem-if-otumfuos-election-claims-are-true-asa-asante\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:31:45","slug":"ghana-has-a-problem-if-otumfuos-election-claims-are-true-asa-asante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/16\/ghana-has-a-problem-if-otumfuos-election-claims-are-true-asa-asante\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana has a problem if Otumfuo\u2019s election claims are true \u2013 Asa Asante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 16 September 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>starrfm.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2019-09-16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/59999719.295.jpg\" alt=\"Otumfuo Asa Asante So40.jpeg\" title=\"Otumfuo Asa Asante So40.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is King of the Ashanti Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Political scientist, Dr. Asa Asante, says despite the denial from the camp of former President, John Mahama, he has no reason to doubt the claims by the Asantehene over his role in the aftermath of the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has denied claims by the Asantehene that he persuaded Mr. Mahama to accept defeat after he lost to now President Akufo-Addo in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI state without equivocation that the decision to concede and congratulate Nana Akufo-Addo even before the official results were declared was taken by President Mahama himself without any persuasion from any quarter. On the day President Mahama willingly conceded defeat, he met with then Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah- Arthur, NDC Chairman Kofi Portuphy, General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, together with some high ranking members of the party and informed them of his decision to call and congratulate Nana Akufo-Addo,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Monday, the Legon lecturer said the revelation by the monarch is dangerous for Ghana\u2019s democracy if they are true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf what the Asantehene said is the truth then I can say there\u2019s a problem with our democracy. I don\u2019t have any evidence to doubt what the Otumfuo has said but if that\u2019s the case we have a problem. Democracy requires that for every free and fair elections people must willingly accept defeat when it happens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Asantehene had claimed in an address abroad that his palace had to convince the former President to handover power after the polls that saw him losing with over one million votes to now President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the conclusion of the last presidential and parliamentary elections, the country [Ghana] stood on the edge of disaster. The UN representatives and the diplomatic community were aghast, alarmed that Ghana was going to slip down the slope of electoral violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, the moral authority of the palace was at hand. We were able to intervene to persuade the losing candidate to accept his fate and fly both candidates for a quiet encounter to pave the way for a handover,\u201d said the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II claimed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 16 September 2019 Source: starrfm.com.gh 2019-09-16 Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is King of the Ashanti Kingdom Political scientist, Dr. Asa Asante, says despite the denial from the camp of former President, John Mahama, he has no reason to doubt the claims by the Asantehene over his role in the aftermath of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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