Election Petition: Mahama gives EC ultimatum to admit to errors
The NDC Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has given the Electoral Commission a 3-day ultimatum to admit to errors made in the just ended election.
In a four-page document, the motion filed by the petitioner wants the EC boss to admit that there was error in the results that saw President Akufo-Addo emerging winner in the 2020 polls.
He also wants the EC boss to admit that the figures and percentages announced by her during the declaration if collated will come to 100.3% instead of 100%.
The EC boss, Jean Mensa is to respond to the new petition within three days.
The NDC Flagbearer’s petition comes after the Supreme Court granted Mr Mahama the request to correct the mistakes in their earlier petition submitted to the apex court.
On January 8, 2021, the former President John Dramani Mahama filed a motion at the apex court to allow him correct errors in the election petition he filed challenging the presidential results declared in President Akufo-Addo’s favour.
The motion for amendment sought the permission of the apex court to correct a mistake in relief (f) of the election petition.
In the election petition filed on December 30, 2020, the first respondent (1st) was the Electoral Commission (EC), with the second respondent (2nd) being President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
However, relief (f) wants the court to order a rerun between Mahama and the first respondent, which as stated in the petition turns out to be the EC.
Relief (f) is seeking “an order of mandatory injunction directing the first respondent to proceed to conduct a second election with petitioner and first respondent as the candidates as required under Articles 63(4) and (5) of the 1992 Constitution.”
It is this mistake that the NDC Flagbearer wants to correct.
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This is the second time in Ghana’s Fourth Republican history that an election is being challenged. In 2012, the NPP challenged the result of that year’s election, claiming it was fraught with abnormalities that should have it nullified.
But the court disagreed and affirmed the election of John Dramani Mahama as the duly elected President.
However, eight years later, it is a reverse fortune for Mr Mahama as also goes to the Supreme Court seeking to torpedo the results announced by the Electoral Commission on December 9, 2020.
Below is the new petition
Who does Mahama think he is by issuing altimatum in a case that is being heard by the Supreme Court?