The Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Dr. Afriyie Osei Akoto has called on the judges at the Supreme Court to throw out the joinder applications of over five hundred members of the NDC to the election petition. He said the joinders are nothing more than a ploy to unduly delay the court processes. He was speaking on the AM Show on Multi TV. He described the over 500 NDC applicants who have joined the suit as proof that ‘’the NDC stole the votes in the 2012 general elections’’. He prayed the Supreme Court will not encourage the practice of persons joining the election petition filed by Nana Akuffo Addo and two others. But Information Minister and MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga in a quick response on the AM Show told Dr Osei Akoto the over 500 persons who had joined had expressed their lawful rights as citizens of the land who had labored throughout election days December 7 and 8 to vote and thus will not allow their votes to be annulled. “You do not expect the over 4 million voters who you (the NPP) seek to annul to sit down and do nothing about it. They want their vote to count and they are expressing their rights’’, he said. He added that the NPP MPs are behaving like hypocrites in accepting salaries and allowances signed by President Mahama only to run down his legitimacy. Mr. Ayariga described the 2012 elections as the most transparent elections he has ever participated in. He said “this is the cleanest [and] most transparent elections I have ever witnessed in my lifetime and running for MP’’.