The Supreme Court will on Tuesday, February 9, hear legal arguments from parties involved in the 2020 Election Petition on whether the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa will mount the witness box to testify or not.
The founder and President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has gotten social media ranting.
He said the testimonies of the second witness for the Petitioner John Dramani Mahama in the ongoing Election Petition, Dr Michael Kpessah-Whyte against the 1
st Respondent, Jean Adukwei Mensa can be trusted.
Dr Michael Kpessah-Whyte maintained in Court that the Chairperson of the 1
st Respondent, Jean Adukwei Mensa, tricked them [he and Rojo Mettle Nunoo] into leaving the strong room purposely to declare the presidential results.
During cross-examination by the lawyer for the 1
st respondent, Dr Kpessah-Whyte said Jean Mensa instructed them to go and confer with John Mahama regarding some election-related issue and come back to the strong room.
The Supreme Court on Monday played a video, which portrays that Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, a witness for the petitioner had told the whole world through various press conferences that the Petitioner John Dramani Mahama had won the 2020 presidential election.
At the last sitting of the court, Mr. Nketia, who is the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) denied during cross examination that he had through various press conferences declared Mr. Mahama as the winner of Elections 2020.
Mr. Akoto Ampaw, Counsel for the second respondent during cross examination of Mr. Nketia prayed the apex court to allow to be played a video captured on pen drive for the court to listen to what the witness had said.
We re extremely satisfied with testimony of Asiedu Nketia Marietta Brew LISTEN
FEB 2, 2021
Madam Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, a Spokesperson for the Petitioner in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Party was extremely satisfied with the testimony given by the General Secretary of the party Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia. In fact, nothing that he has said undermines our case. Indeed, everything he said goes to point to the fact that we are entitled to the declarations that we are seeking, she said.
Madam Appiah-Oppong addressing the media in the post-trial interview said the video the other parties sought to rely on to discredit the General Secretary of the Party did not happen as they thought to do.