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Election Petition: Even if we had picked Angel Michael as witness we would still have lost – NDC

By Laud Nartey
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Election Petition: Even if we had picked Angel Michael as witness we would still have lost – NDC

Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has said that it appeared to them that the seven justices of the Supreme Court who sat on the 2020 election petition hearing had already made up their mind that they were not going to listen to the petitioner, John Dramani Mahama.

He made this claim on the back of the unanimous dismissal of almost all the applications they put before the apex court during the hearing and also the dismissal of the entire case.

It is recalled that the petitioner filed a number of applications during the hearing including one on interrogatories that was seeking the first respondent, the Electoral Commission to answer some questions relating to the declaration of the election results.

But the court by a unanimous decision dismissed these applications after lawyers of the respondents had mounted counter arguments against those applications.

Mr Mahama had  gone to the highest court of the land to challenge the presidential results announced by the EC Chair Jean Mensa that declared President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo winner of the polls.

In the view of Mr Mahama, no candidate polled the number of votes to win the presidential elections.

He asked the court to compel a rerun of the polls but after four months of hearing the case, the court by a unanimous decision dismissed the petition on the grounds that it was without merit.

Following that, the NDC has tabled a number of electoral reforms to improve on elections in Ghana.

Discussing these proposals on TV3’s Key Points with host Dzifa Bampoh on Saturday August 28, Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said among other things that “The court did not allow us to ask the questions that needed to be answered. Bring the documentary evidence that formed the basis of you declaring results six times, unprecedented in this country.

“We have been to court with the NPP before. They brought pink sheets , go and read the judgement of the court , so we are not daft.

“When you are going to court  on a case you do your research  and you look at what the judges say  on various issues and then you build your case basis on those precedence  so you look at when pick sheets were produced  what was the posture of the Supreme Court ?

“I was in court almost everyday, the posture  of the court and the fact that consistently on every single  issue  there was unanimity , even if we had taken  all the pink sheets in this world  and added Angel Gabriel  as witness with Angel Michael as a technical  advisor it will still have been a unanimous , unfortunately that  is my view. It appeared as if they had just  made up their minds that  they were not going to listen to us.”

By Laud Nartey|editors.3news.com|Ghana

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Laud Nartey is an online editor with current affair team at Media General, operators of TV3 Ghana, 3News.com and more. Email: Laud.Nartey@editors.3news.com

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