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The Director of Research for National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr William Ahadzi, has said the party was never clueless about the 2020 election results.
According to him, the system the party used for the collation of results got jammed, they, therefore, turned their attention to the manual collation which intends delayed making them not able to submit full results to the court.
His comments came after he was asked whether the NDC were clueless about the 2020 election results.
Speaking on JoyNews The Probe on Sunday, the Research Director explained that “We were never clueless.
"We introduced a system that got jammed when it was supposed to collect the data and so we switched quickly to the alternative which is manual collation.
"But the speed with which you want to collect data is important if you want to go to court. And the manual data which takes a lot of time wasn't complete before we went to court.”
Mr Ahadzi continued that the party was having some of the results of the election when it went to court for an election petition even though it was not 100% results.
He expressed that blame should not be apportioned on the immediate past executives of the party for the misappropriation of results since it was not their fault but the fault of the system.
Recently, there has been a leaked tape in which the past General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia revealed that the party did not have enough evidence to contest the 2020 general election results.
In the tape, Asiedu Nketia was heard explaining to party faithful that the Director of IT failed to electronically collate the evidence the party needed to contest the outcome of the presidential election.
This made the New Patriotic Party (NPP) demand an unqualified apology from the NDC to Ghanaians and the Supreme Court for wasting their time during the 2020 election petition.
Meanwhile, NDC's Director of Legal Affairs Abraham Amaliba has said the party will not apologise for the 2020 election petition.
Mr Amaliba said the party’s decision to contest the 2020 election results was justified, thus the demand for an apology is unnecessary.
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