Abronye, Wontumi Join Forces To Challenge Mahama’s Petition Filed At Supreme Court
.Abronye and Chairman Wontumi, as daring as they are in the Ghanaian politics had joined forces to take on the flagbearer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama on his petition to the Supreme Court to have the results of the 2020 Presidential election quashed. One thing for which these two party chairmen of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) find ‘outrageous’ is the demand from John Mahama to have the Supreme Court order the Electoral Commission conduct a second election between himself and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Abronye started off and got the backing of Chairman Wontumi, on Wontumi TV as he recounted some remarks the court made in the 2013 Election Petition that was filed by then candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to them John Mahama has no locus to suggest to the court what need to be done even if their claims of election irregularities were true.
Abronye referenced that the precendence of the 2013 petition where some results sheets were not certified by returning officers, despite the convincing argument raised to have them annuled, were discarded creates an impression that no amount of anomaly committed by the Electoral Commission could be faulted on the winner of the 2020 Presidential election; Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
“Tsatsu once argued in court that the voters and winner of an election can’t be faulted for any anomaly nornwrong doing commited by the EC. Need we remind them of what they said then?,” Abronye asked.
View pictures in App save up to 80% data.He went further to alleged that then President John Mahama argued in 2013 that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to overturn an election that has been declared by the Electoral Commission.
“Ask Mahama, that the Coalition of Ghanaian voters that he sponsored in 2013 to protest the petition that was filed by Nana Addo, on grounds of his own argument that the court has no authority to order for a re-run of election; can still be held against his petition.”
View pictures in App save up to 80% data.Chairman Wontumi contended that it is not contemptuous on their part to provoke these past events and question the merits of the petition that John Mahama had filed at the court.
In his view any consideration of the facts should not discount any counter argument the lead lawyer of the petitioner, Tsatsu Tsikata raised during the 2013 petition.