Mahama’s petition is baseless and total waste of court’s time— EC
The Electoral Commission has described the petition filed by 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama as baseless and a waste of court’s time.
The Commission also stated that the petition was filed based on “extreme speculations” and explained that those speculations thrived on the existence of two wrong assumptions.
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This is the decision by Mr Mahama to hold on to the wrong figure mentioned as valid votes (13,434,574) even though the right figure is known.
The other assumption the EC says is the flagbearer’s determination to strangely assign all the Techiman South votes to himself even though the actual results were known to him at the time he decided to file the petition
Mr Mahama who lost the December 7, 2020 polls to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo wants the results annulled.
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Mahama’s petition is baseless and total waste of court’s time— EC
He argued that President Akufo-Addo did not actually obtain the 50 plus one of the votes cast but rather benefitted from vote padding and computational errors.
The EC however insisted that the returning officer’s inadvertent mistake made during declaration did not change how Ghanaians voted on December 7.
It stated that the 13,434,574 mentioned as total valid votes was an error.
Nana Akufo-Addo, the EC said obtained 6,730,413 representing more than 50per cent of the 13,121,111 valid votes (specifically 51.302per cent).
These explanations were contained in Legal arguments filed by the EC in compliance with the Supreme Court’s orders that parties in the case address the initial objection raised by the EC and President Akufo-Addo that the case should be dismissed as soon as possible.
The EC further argued that the petition filed by the aggrieved party failed to disclose how the alleged vote padding influenced the outcome of the elections.
The EC concluded that the petition did not merit a trial and was a total waste of the court’s time.
Source: www.spotonnews.net
