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NDC ENDORSES PETITIONERS CASE; OPENS WAY FOR A
RE-RUN?
Counsel for the National Democratic Congress, in the ongoing
Supreme Court petition challenging the declared outcome of the
December 7th Presidential election, on Tuesday endorsed the case
of the petitioners that the December Presidential elections were
fraught with irregularities.
Tsatsu Tsikata did so by introducing new pink sheets outside the
11,138 pink sheets being challenged by the petitioners to prove
that indeed there were irregularities in the elections, with his
intention being to suggest that those irregularities also
happened in the strongholds of the NPP.
This interesting turn of events, which occurred as Counsel for
the 3rd Respondents continued his cross examination of the main
witness of the petitioners, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, seems to have
strengthened the case of the petitioners who have long held that
the elections of December 7th were marred with widespread
irregularities which affected the outcome of the elections and
largely inured to the benefit of John Mahama.
It would be observed that since the commencement of the case all
the respondents, the Electoral Commission, John Mahama and the
NDC have maintained that the elections were not affected by
irregularities whatsoever with John Mahama even stating during
his State of the Nation address that the 2012 Elections was “by
far the most credible, transparent, free and fair since 1992.”
The introduction of this new line of argument by the NDC and to
an extent John Mahama, as the two submitted a joint affidavit,
isolates the Electoral Commission, which would now become the
only respondent still insisting that the elections were perfect.
Counsel for the NDC, Tsatsu Tsikata, who introduced the new pink
sheets showing irregularities in the elections in other polling
stations other than what the petitioners are challenging sought
to suggest with those polling stations that the petitioners did
not act in good faith and had been selective in choosing the
polling stations affected by irregularities.
However, counsel for the petitioners Philip Addison quickly
responded and pointed out to the Judges that indeed the question
of acting in bad faith could not come in because the petitioners
had long stated that they had analyzed only 24,000 pink sheets
out of the 26,002 polling stations nationwide.
According to a source at the NPP headquarters, the bad faith can
now be attributed to the NDC who by their action today have
proved that indeed they were aware of the irregularities in the
elections including over voting but they kept silent because
their candidate John Mahama was declared winner by the Electoral
Commission.
“The claim of the NDC could not also be true because as Dr.
Bawumia stated in court on Tuesday, there are over a 1,000
polling stations being challenged out of the 11,138 polling
stations where the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo actually won. Again per
the analysis of the petitioners, they are asking the court to
annul 1,388,239 votes from the total votes tally of Nana
Akufo-Addo while the annulments would also mean that 2,910,103
votes would have to be annulled from the total votes tally of
John Mahama,” the source added.
The source continued, “Per the new argument of the NDC however,
it seems the party has now opened the way for a re-run of the
elections which now might have become the safest route for the
party after its failure to destroy the case of the petitioners
after eleven days of cross examining the main witness of the
petitioners, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.”
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Tsatsu's problems as I see it
Court Observer, May 06, Ghanadot -
Facts: he does not have any facts. His client (NDC) has not
been accused of anything. Only the EC can address the issues
raised by the petitioners. NDC cannot expain why there are
Overvotes, GROPAAvotes, under-the-table votes, etc.....More |
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