[ 2021-01-30 ]

I have not told the world that Petitioner won the 2020 Elections - NDC General S

By Joyce Danso

Accra, Jan. 30, GNA - Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia,
the General Secretary of the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) has denied at the Supreme Court
that he had told the whole world that John Dramani
Mahama won the Election 2020.

According to him he never stated at a press
Conference that Mr. Mahama won the elections.

Answering questions under cross examination by Mr
Akoto Ampaw, counsel for the second respondent
(Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo) at the Election 2020
Petition hearing, the General Secretary of the NDC
said “My Lords, that was not in my witness
statement”.

Mr Asiedu admitted that his Party held several
press conferences after the elections noting that
the Petitioner asserted that the results of the
Electoral Commission was not accurate.

He said he made it clear to the public that the
NDC had won majority seats in Parliament and same
would give the Petitioner upper hand in the
presidential results.

Mr Apaw pointed out to the witness that a video of
what he had told the whole world was on a pen
drive and he wanted it to be played in court since
the witness had been evasive.

Mr Ampaw said he wanted to establish the
credibility of the witness in the box.
Counsel for Nana Addo therefore put in an oral
application seeking leave of the court to have the
pen drive played, adding, they were ready to
assist the court to ensure that same was played in
court.

The seven-member panel, which did not make room
for the playing of the video on pen drive hence
adjourned the matter to Monday, February 1.

The adjournment would afford the court to get
relevant equipment so the court would have access
to the video on the pen drive.

Earlier on Mr Aseidu Nketia was given a calculator
to make some additions and subtractions of the
2020 Election Results. The way, the General
Secretary handled the calculator set audience in
the court room laughing.

During an earlier cross-examination by Mr Justine
Amenuvor, lawyer for the First Respondent, the
Electoral Commission (EC), the General Secretary
calculated some figures to make his case.

Mr Mahama in his Petition, had selected the
General Secretary of the NDC and another member of
the NDC, Dr Michael Kpessah-Whyte, who was in the
EC strong room to testify in the case.
As part of Mr Asiedu Nketia’s witness statement,
he had indicated that there had never been any
election in which EC had admitted a catalogue of
errors than in the 2020 presidential elections.

“In all previous Presidential Elections, results
collated at each constituency collation centre
were transmitted directly by fax from first
Respondent’s regional offices (without
collation), to what is usually referred to as the
‘strong room’ at its head office in Accra, and
handed over to the representatives of the
candidates, for them to scrutinize and then
certify.

“In those previous Presidential Elections, when
first Respondent declared the final results, they
were based on the collated results from the
constituencies, which were duly certified by
representatives of the candidates in the strong
room,” Mr Asiedu Nketia said in his witness
statement

Source - GNA

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