The former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says that the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, is the right person to become the country’s next president.

According to him, although the former president is not a saint, he has the experience necessary to correct the wrongs in the system created by the Akufo-Addo administration.

"John Dramani Mahama is not a saint, but he is nobody’s poodle. He has the experience, as a former president, to audit the mess that the Nana Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government will leave behind," he said.

He explained that, despite having had differences with John Mahama in the past, Mahama possesses the experience required to ensure probity and accountability in the country, following President Akufo-Addo’s failure to do so. “I have had problems with John Dramani Mahama in the past, which are documented on my website. The constitutional situation on our hands, however, demands pragmatism to ensure probity and accountability after an eight-year tenure of government. We need a candidate who can command a sizeable parliamentary representation to actualise an audit of the previous government,” he said.

In one of his epistles released three days before the 2024 general election, he further stated that the president is afraid of being audited by John Mahama. He thus called on Ghanaians to vote against the NPP on December 7 to defend and preserve the country’s constitution.

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“John Dramani Mahama, whose audit Nana Akufo-Addo fears, ought to be the best bet for the integrity of the 1992 Constitution in our present circumstances. The 1992 Constitution does not enshrine dynasty or inheritance by cronyism, and that is why the electorate should aim for a change in government on 7 December 2024, to defend and preserve the Constitution of our Fourth Republic. Ghana must always come first,” he emphasized.

He also stated that he would not endorse the candidacy of Dr Bawumia, saying, “I cannot, as a person born in the then NT, recommend Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as a person with the traits of honesty, integrity, and selfless service exhibited by our forebears from the NT to the Republic of Ghana, to be elected on 7 December 2024 as president, symbolising a representation of northerners on an NPP ticket for Ghana.”

Mr Amidu, who also served as Attorney General under the NDC government in the past, described President Nana Akufo-Addo as the “mother serpent of corruption” after he resigned as the country’s first Special Prosecutor in the year 2020, a role the president gave him to fight corruption.

He believes that the president did not offer him the supportive environment needed to investigate and prosecute corrupt individuals under the NPP administration.