Story by: Yunus Swalahudeen Wakpenjo
Source: Millennium news online
After days long of consultations and fact building, the largest opposition party in ghana, the national democratic congress has on the 30th December, filed petition at the supreme court, the apex court of the land to contest the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections.
The party took their time to peruse various statements of poll’s sheets and other relevant documents, which gave them the confident of making a legal case at the apex court.
The move is to reaffirm the party’s leader and former president of the republic, John Dramani Mahama, not to accept the outcome of a flawed election.
He made revelation following conduct of the commissioners of the electoral commission which suggest they were making effort to do the bid of the sitting president who appointed them after ousting the former commissioner and her deputies on the account of frivolities such as procurement breaches.
Pressure groups, local and international observers have all bemoaned the opaqueness of the 2020 election, while others are calling for public collation of result for transparency.
The incumbent president has since been enjoying the outcome of contentious electoral result, but the Supreme Court in the matter of days would establish the legitimacy of his 2020 presidential fortune.
Nonetheless, the opposition national democratic congress has expressed its reservation about the neutrality of the current judiciary. However, they have filed their petition to make a moral and legal point at the end of the day.
Some of the things the national democratic congress will ask the apex court to deal with includes, padding of votes in some regions, arithmetic errors voter suppression among others.
Meanwhile, the supreme court is on recess and expected to reconvene on January 11.