Mahama Refusing To Testify In Election Petition – Frank Davies
Mr. Frank Davies, one of the lawyers for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s legal team in the election petition case says ex-President John Dramani Mahama is afraid to testify in court.
Mr. Davies made the claim on Friday, January 29, 2021, when he addressed the press shortly after the Supreme Court adjourned the case to Monday.
According to him, failure by Mahama to testify means he does not believe in his own case before the court.
“It is very instructive to let all Ghanaians know that…the petitioner himself has no witness statement before the court. This is a petitioner who seeks to have the 2020 presidential elections annulled and is praying for a rerun. This same person is refusing to come and give evidence in court,” he said.
Mr. Davies also blasted Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC over some utterances he made in court on Friday.
Mr. Nketia who was presented as a witness by ex-President John Mahama answered: “I don’t speak for the petitioner” several times during his cross-examination in court.
Mr. Davies who could not take such excuses lambasted Mr. Nketia accusing him of trying to be “elusive and evasive.”
“When Mr. Asiedu Nketia mounted the witness box in court today. He was largely evasive and for every question that was posed to him, his immediate response was that ‘I do not speak for the petitioner’. This is someone who in paragraph two of his own witness statement stated clearly that he was to lend aid to the petition filed by the petitioner.”
“So how can you come to court as a witness for a party and when you are asked questions in court, your response is that I don’t speak for the petitioner? Then why are you in the court? He thinks he can be evasive and elusive as he was in 2012 and 2013. This time around, he would not be lucky,” he said.