No One Won, Order A Second Round Mahama Petitions Supreme Court

The NDC flagbearer, John Mahama has petitioned the Supreme Court to order a second round of the 2020 election. According to the former President, the votes obtained by NPP candidate, President Nana Akufo Addo and himself in the December 7 election as declared by the EC Chair were not enough to be declared winner. In his petition to the Supreme Court Wednesday Mahama

said, the claim that percentage of votes obtained by the 2nd Respondent Akufo Addo was 51.595% 6,730,413 of the total valid votes that she distinctly stated to have been 13,434,574 was a manifest error, as votes cast for 2nd Respondent would amount to 50.098% and not the 51.595% erroneously declared. He said the first Respondent in her December 9 declaration said the

NDC candidate obtained 6,214,889 being 47.366% of the valid votes. From the total votes cast of 13,434,574, petitioner’s percentages would reduce to 46.260% and not the 47.366% erroneously declared. The percentage attribute to all but one of the other candidates by Jean Mensa were all incorrect, he said. The former President argued that if all the valid votes for all the candidates

who contested the election are put together, it would total 13,121,111, a figure that is completely missing from the purported declaration by the Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa on December 9, and the purported rectification on December 10. John Mahama said the percentage of all the valid votes for the 12 contesting candidates would yield a total of 100.03%. This he said is a mathematical and statistical impossibility, a further

proof of the wrongfulness and unconstitutionality of the purported declaration. Among other things, the petition is on the grounds that the purported declaration of the results of the 2020 Presidential Election on the 9th day of December 2020 is unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever. John Mahama added, that in making the said declaration, Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, Chairperson of first 1st Respondent and the Returning Officer for the Presidential polls violated constitutional duty imposed on her by Articles 23 and 296 (a) of the Constitution to be fair, candid and reasonable.