Just as we revealed prior to the last election how the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) had hatched diabolic plans to cause mayhem and disrupt the peace of the country through a series of demonstrations to undermine the true will of the people of Ghana, we have once again uncovered a sinister...

...and nation-wrecking backup plan by the elephant party to cause mass disaffection against the Mahama-led government in the highly likely event the verdict of the Supreme Court does not favor them.

Having realized they have little or no chance of victory in the on-going presidential election petition hearing, leading members of the NPP, notably from the Akyem stock of the party, are now banking their hopes on a supposed support from the international community to, according to them, ‘begin fresh litigation in any international court’, in order to continue the psychological warfare against President Mahama and his administration.

According to a source, the NPP has vowed never to give the Mahama-led NDC government, a scintilla of peace in its entire four-year first term in office, with or without victory in their ignominious on-going legal battle at the Supreme Court.

This diabolic alternate plan the Dankwa-Busia-Dombo remnants are clutching on, a source close to NPP told The Al-Hajj, was arrived at when the petitioners finally came to the realization that the ongoing cross examination of the second petitioner and principal witness, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia by lawyers of the respondents is lucidly exposing the hollowness and emptiness of their evidence that they christened as “watertight and incontrovertible.”

According to our source, who is also a proud member of the Akyem stock but has a strong affection for Alan Kyerematen, a political archrival of Nana Akufo-Addo, the plan is to get some amorphous groups within the NPP to create the impression that the nine-member panel is becoming hostile to them, hence the outcome of the case, which they have confided in each other as a nonstarter is been skewed to favor the respondents.

The source noted that, prior to the hearing of the election petition, the petitioners were upbeat about having the Supreme Court declares Nana Akufo-Addo as president, but what seems to have dashed their spirit was the kind of tact and meticulousness lawyers of the respondents have taken to punch holes in their evidence, thereby given them indications that they may be chasing a white elephant.

In a frenetic preparation towards waging this relentless, sustained and ever-increasing psychological war all in a bid to psych-up their supporters to kick against the outcome of the election petition, lead counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison, in a response to his overruled objection to stop the lead counsel for the third respondents, Tsatsu Tsikata from cross-examining Dr. Bawumia, last Tuesday suggested that the judges were being unfriendly and ill-disposed to them.

“…I have authorities, I was going to refer to your Lordships, I didn’t know you were going to act so swiftly… I will take my seat, given the ‘attitude’ the court has taken; I will not press forward”. Lawyer Philip Addison retorted, when allowed by the court, to cite authorities he had earlier demanded.

The recent surge in threats of demonstrations by pressure groups affiliated to the petitioners, the call for civil disobedience and the threat of imminent coup d’état by leading members of the NPP are not just mere rhetoric but an elaborate plan that feeds into the bigger diabolic backup plan of the NPP after they are vanquished in the on-going Supreme Court case.

“The demonstration by the Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) and the Concerned Ghanaians Against Electoral Fraud in the United Kingdom and United States was a ploy to draw the attention of the international community that the ruling government was using brute force to intimidate the opposition party, hence the need to buy into their idea by providing them with some support to subvert the constitutional mandate of President Mahama and the NDC government,” the source added.

Meanwhile, our intelligence has it that the idea of commencing a fresh case in an international court after a possible defeat at the Supreme Court, featured prominently in a closed-door discussion the first petitioner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had with the German Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Guido Westerwelle when the two met to discuss issues relating to the ongoing trial and the general peace and stability of the nation at this trying moment.

Though, at face value, Nana Akufo-Addo promised to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court in the ongoing trial, a source familiar with discussions at the meeting noted, “Nana Addo had actually taken advantage of the meeting behind the scenes to not only announced but also sought the backing of the German Foreign Affairs Minister for the opposition’s backup plan of seeking international court’s remedy in the nation’s on-going electoral dispute, in the likely event that they are defeated at the Supreme Court.”

The source revealed that some leading members of the party in the diaspora are seriously working on putting together a team of lawyers that will work on fresh case in the International Court to be decided by the international powers, adding “we want to destabilize the Mahama administration by using all available instruments at our disposal.”

“If the case is not in any court, there will be no justification for embarking on a series of protests and demonstrations both locally and internationally by our supporters to deny Mahama any comfort,” the source disclosed.