The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2020 presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama to cross examine the 1st respondent, EC boss in court.
The Court Presided over by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, in a unanimous decision dismissed the application for interrogatories allowing for the substantive matter to be heard.
The Supreme Court resumed the pretrial for the petition presented by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer , John Dramani Mahama, contesting the election 2020 results is underway at the Supreme Court.
The trial comes after the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) rejected the presidential results announced by the Electoral Commission (EC), arguing that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, did not win the election.
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.
