A legal Practitioner Bobby Banson believes that the Petitioner, John Dramani Mahama’s defeat can be attributed to insufficient evidence presented before the apex court to buttress the claims levelled against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC).

John Mahama’s petition argued that none of the candidates who contested the polls obtained more than 50% of the votes cast. He alleged that Akufo-Addo benefitted from vote padding.

He also claims the candidate benefitted from arithmetic and computational errors. He concludes that the EC’s declaration of Akufo-Addo is unconstitutional since he did not obtain more than 50% of the valid votes cast.

However, the legal practitioner noted that, the failure of the legal counsel of Mahama to provide pink sheets to attest to the vote paddling assertion decreased their chances of having the ruling in their favour.  

“It is not the repeating of your statement that makes it evidence, it is the documentary evidence that you have in support of your statement that makes it evidence so they could have repeated it hundred times but without a scintilla of evidence it still would have fallen flat.”  

Speaking to JoyNews, Mr Banson opined that “statement in the court of law without evidence becomes a mere political propaganda and that is what the petitioner suffered in this case.”

The NDC before the December 7 polls had said it was not going to accept the results of a flawed election.

True to their word, after the elections, they held a series of press conferences rejecting the outcome of the 2020 election, insisting it was flawed and the results are fictitious.

This led to a series of demonstration across the country by NDC supporters and sympathisers before a petition was filed to seek redress in court.

Meanwhile, a seven-member panel of Supreme Court Judges in a unanimous decision dismissed the election petition filed by the 2020 NDC Presidential Candidate, John Dramani Mahama.

This according to the apex court is because the case before it has no merit.