The 2016 campaign coordinator of the failed president John Mahama re-election bid, Kofi Adams, has stated that he would reject a decision by the outgoing president not to contest in the 2020 presidential race.
President Mahama lost in last year’s presidential race at the hands of Nana Akufo-Addo, the leader of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mahama polled 4,713,277 votes representing 44.40% of the total votes cast as against Akufo-Addo’s 5,716,026 votes representing 53.85%.
That notwithstanding, Mr. Adams said he expects the president to make a comeback in 2020, adding that he would be hurt should the president do otherwise.
“If he decides not to run for elections, I will be disappointed…I will mobilise people against that,” he told Asempa FM on Tuesday.
Also, Minister of Sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuije disclosed that the NDC will force the outgoing president to return as the party’s presidential candidate in 2020, despite the humiliating defeat inflicted on him by Akufo-Addo.
“We’ll force John Mahama to go,” he stated during an interview on Personality Profile Show Starr Chat on 28 December, 2016.
