[ 2021-02-12 ]

Rectified election results not gazetted – Marietta Brew
Spokesperson for the petitioner’s legal team,
Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong has stated that the
announced presidential results later rectified by
the Chairperson of Electoral Commission (EC) were
never gazetted.

Speaking at a press briefing after the Supreme
Court hearing on Thursday, she indicated that
there was only one declaration and gazette of the
2020 Presidential election, thus the December 9
declaration.

The gazetted results according to Marietta Brew,
were never revised or revoked after the EC
corrected the figures for the presidential
results.

“There is only one declaration, 9 December
declaration. There were purported corrections,
have you seen any gazette or notification dated on
the any of the purported corrections, there is
only one, 9th December and the C.I. 135 talks
about a declaration of 9th December.”


The law mandates the Commission to gazette the
results of every presidential election after it
has declared a winner.

On December 10, 2020, a day after the declaration
of the presidential results by Jean Mensa, the
2020 general election results were gazetted at the
Assembly Press in Accra.

The EC chair also made some corrections on the
total valid votes put out during the declaration
of results on December 9.



Jean Mensa declared the presidential candidate of
the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo as
the President-elect based on a total of 13,433,573
valid votes instead of 13,119,460.

Madam Appiah-Oppong, however, revealed that based
on evidence, both the Petitioner and President
Akufo-Addo did not get more than 50% of the valid
votes.

“The evidence that has been given points simply
to the fact that the declaration of 9 December is
null and void, none of the two candidates got more
than the 50% of the valid votes.”

She further stressed that Jean Mensa is the only
person who can defend the conflicting numbers of
the 2020 presidential election and must account
for the anomalies seen in the December polls.

“There are questions that we put to her that
only she can answer nobody can answer,
irrespective of what case we’ve put before the
court, there are questions in relation to this
case that she alone must answer.”

Meanwhile the Supreme Court today ruled out on the
cross-examination of Jean Mensa.

The legal team of the petitioner, however,
disagree with the decision of the apex court, and
will hence file an application for a review of the
ruling by the 7-member panel of judges.

Source - Joyfm

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