A member of the Legal team for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Abraham Amaliba says Supreme Court is the mandated body to decide on the election petition and not any other person.
Reacting to Akufo-Addo describing their petition as incompetent in an interview with Ghana News Agency ,he said;
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“The President is aware that the Electoral Commission (EC) has admitted that it committed errors in the 9th December Declaration of the Presidential Election results. The President is aware that the EC admitted to that error. The President is aware that the EC subsequently sought to correct that mistake through a press statement, which was unsigned,” Mr. Amaliba stated.
“But at the end of the day, when the EC gazetted the results of the 2020 election, the Commissioner gazetted the 9th December Declaration, which is an error, riddled election result declaration.”
“So, these are matters that must be resolved in court. And so, for the Akufo-Addo to say that our petition lacks merit is, to say the least, disingenuous on his part.”
“It clearly shows that the President and his people don’t understand our electoral processes. Our electoral processes end at the declaration stage, where the EC would declare the elections,” Mr. Amaliba said.
“And if the EC has declared wrong results, isn’t that against the Constitution? Isn’t that against article 63 (3) of the 1992 constitution? Where it states that the person to be declared as a winner should have attained more than 50 percent.”
Article 63 (3): “A person shall not be elected as president of Ghana unless at the presidential election the number of votes cast in his favour is more than fifty percent of the total number of valid votes cast at the election.”
He noted that if at the end of the day, the EC declares the result and proper mathematics of that declaration would show that Akufo-Addo would get forty-nine point something percent, but not cross the 50 percent mark to become president, isn’t that an issue?
“So, I think that whatever they have they should go to court and defend themselves, “he said.
