The Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, says the EC boss, Jean Mensah, must justify all the mistakes she made with respect to the election 2020 results in court.
Pretrial and case management for the petition presented by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer , John Dramani Mahama, contesting the election 2020 results will begin on Tuesday 19th January 2021.
The trial comes after the NDC argued that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, did not win the election 2020 as declared by the EC.
Lawyers for President Akufo-Addo, have, however, argued that the election petition filed at the Supreme Court by NDC presidential candidate, John Mahama is full of weak and inconsistent complaints and must be dismissed.
According to Akufo-Addo, Mahama’s petition failed to disclose any attack on the validity of of the election held throughout all the polling station across the country.
“The election petition does not disclose any attack on the validity of the election held throughout the 38,622 polling stations and 311 special voting centres or any of the processes set out in the paragraphs 3 and 4 (supra).
In point of fact, Petitioner only devotes an overwhelming portion of the petition(30 out of 35 paragraphs) to weak and inconsistent complaints about the “declaration of the winner” of the election by 1st Respondent, and the remaining five(5) paragraphs to empty allegations of “wrong aggregation of votes” and “votes padding,” which collectively involve about 6,622 votes- an amount patently insignificant to materially affect the outcome of an election in which 2nd respondent defeated Petitioner by we’ll over 500,000 votes” paragraph 5&6 of the president’s response states.
Speaking in an interview on Atinka FM’s AM Drive with host Ekourba Gyasi, The Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, noted that in the history of Ghana’s democracy no Electoral Commission has changed the results of an election more than 3 times.
“ If you tabulate the percentage of the 12 candidates who contested the election 2020, it exceeds 100%. Let the trial begin and let Jane Mensah enter the witness box and justify all the mistakes she made in the elections and we shall all go home and sleep,” he added.
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