Flagbearer of National Democractic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says the testimonies of the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia’s was taken out of context, creating the basis for the dismissal of his election petition.
Reacting to the ruling of the Apex Court at a press conference, Mr Mahama stated that he is alarmed at the mutilation of Mr Asiedu’s testimony in the Supreme Court's ruling.
Mr Mahama asserted that he had followed the proceedings of the petition and listened to the testimony of the NDC's General Secretary along with his 2 other witnesses, however “the ruling I heard today, virtually makes him (Mr Nketia) the star witness of the 1st and 2nd Respondents,” he said.
Addressing the nation after the verdict, Mahama stated that “The Supreme Court has given its verdict, but the national debate on the dismal state of our democracy and the increasing weakness of its institutions has only just begun.”
Disagreeing with the process of the trial and the verdict of the apex court, the flagbearer of the NDC said “this case will go into the Ghana Law Reports for the future, and academics and students of law alike will clearly find befuddling, the internal contradictions in our jurisprudence. At the appropriate time, the legal team will come out with detailed comments on the judgment.”
Mr Mahama called on all and sundry to come together to confront those who seek to destroy the very democratic system that brought them into office, adding that it is patriotic duty of the citizens to do so.
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