Cross Examination Of Asiedu Nketia Continues Today

The Supreme Court will later today Monday February 1, 2021 resume hearing the 2020 Election Petition case filed by the NDC presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama. Mr. John Mahama is in court challenging the outcome of the results declared by the Electoral Commission on December 9th. The cross-examination of the NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia

will continue today. At the last sitting, prior to Mr. Nketia mounting the witness box, seven paragraphs were struck out from his statement. This was after Akoto Ampaw, the lead lawyer for President Akufo Addo, asked the Supreme Court to delete portions of Mr. Nketia’s statement. Mr. Akoto Ampaw argued that ten paragraphs in Asiedu Nketia’s statement should be

expunged because they were not based on the pleadings of the petitioner, unduly prejudicial and scandalous. The court in its ruling struck out seven paragraphs out of the ten paragraphs that President Akufo-Addo’s lawyer objected to. At the last sitting, Mr. Asiedu Nketia claimed that the petitioner was in court to challenge some actions and inactions of the

Electoral Commission but not necessarily to seek the announcement of a different outcome of the polls. My Lord we are not in court to try to declare another presidential result by us NDC, we are in court to challenge the performance of the constitutional duty of the first respondent Chairpersonf of the Electoral Commission and to assess whether that duty has been discharged faithfully, he said.