Mahama Argues 2024 Presidential Peace Pact May Amount to Nothing

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2024 general elections, John Mahama, has called into question the potency of the 2024 Presidential Peace Pact. 

According to the former president, the peace pact may just be ceremonial rather than practical, citing past electoral violence in both the 2020 general elections and the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections. 

Mr Mahama was speaking at the signing of the 4th Presidential Election Peace Pact in Accra on Thursday, 28th November, 2024, where he referenced the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence and the killing of eight people during the 2020 elections.

He further chided the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for failing to apprehend the perpetrators of the violence and called upon the Inspector General of Police, Akuffo Dampare, to arrest the thugs. 

Mahama said, "Events and happenings during the last election and during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election create considerable doubts about the genuineness of some of the commitments that we might make today. How are we to believe that such killings will not reoccur during this election? As well, there also remains the vexed question of the use of thugs dressed in security service uniforms to intimidate and brutalise citizens during elections".