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A former Attorney General, Nii Ayikoi Otoo has told Mr John Dramani Mahama not to blame his defeat in court on the refusal of the chair of the electoral commission to testify in the petitioner hearing at the supreme court.
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has called on the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to guard against their comments and utterances on the Supreme Court’s judgment of the election petition in order to uphold the sanctity of the judiciary.
Nana Addo and Dr Mahamamudu Bawumia Pulse Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo polled 51.3 percent of the valid votes, according to figures from the Electoral Commission (EC) while the petitioner, who was the 2020 presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, polled 47 percent. Chief Justice Anin-Yeboah delivering the judgment said: the petition is dismissed as without merit. Nana Addo Pulse Ghana According to the court, the correction of an error concerning the total number of valid votes cast by the EC Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, was within her mandate and did not affect the will of the people. Mahama went to court to challenge the result of the 2020 polls after the EC declared Nana Addo winner.