The Electoral Commission (EC) has responded to the petition by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama.
According to the EC, the NDC’s petition is false and disingenuous.
The flagbearer for the NDC, John Dramani Mahama has petition the court praying for an annulment of the 2020 election results.
According to him, the NPP’s Akufo-Addo that Mr. Akufo-Addo benefitted from arithmetic errors and vote padding by the EC.
But in a 14 page response, Lawyer for the Commission, Justin Amenuvor, argued that the EC Chairperson in her declaration inadvertently read out the figure representing the total number of votes cast as the total number of valid votes and the percentage of Mr. Akufo-Addo as 51.59 instead of 51.295%.
This, According to him did not affect the overall results declared.
Read full statement below:
Ghana | Atinkaonline.com