The Supreme Court of Ghana has issued direction to the lawyers of the Petitioner (John Mahama) to file their witness statement at the registry by the close of 21st January, 2021. This order was issued by the Apex Court before adjourning the case to 26th January, 2021 for the commencement of the trial of the 2020 Presidential election petition.
Petitioner's Case
The Petitioner argued that as per the results announced by Mrs. Mensa on December 9, 2020, no candidate got more than 50 per cent of the total valid votes cast as required by Article 63 (3) of the 1992 Constitution.
According to him, the EC Chairperson, announced the total valid votes cast as 13,434,574, minus the results of Techiman South with President Akufo- Addo obtaining 6,730,413 of the votes representing 51.59 per cent of the votes, while he (Mahama) got 6,214,898, representing 47.366 per cent of the votes cast.
It is the case of Mr. Mahama that per the figures, the actual percentage for President Akufo-Addo minus Techiman South ought to be 50.098 per cent and not 51.595 per cent as announced by the EC Chair.
He also argued that his percentage minus Techiman South should be 46.26 per cent and not 47.366 per cent.
Throwing more light on the calculations, Mr. Mahama argued that Techiman South, had a total voting population of 128,018 and if that was added to the total valid votes cast as declared by the EC, it would be 13,434,574 plus 128,018 (13,562,592).
Arguing further, Mr. Mahama said it was erroneous for the EC to state that even if all the votes in Techiman South were added to the petitioner's votes, President Akufo-Addo votes will remain the same at 6,730,413, now yielding 49.625 per cent whiles the votes of the petitioner will increase to 6, 324, 907, now yielding 46.768 per cent.
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