The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), gave meaning to the party’s quest to seek legal redress after claiming the 2012 General Elections were rigged in favour of President John Dramani Mahama when its team of seasoned lawyers stormed the Supreme Court to file a suit seeking to invalidate the Presidential Election results.
On December 9, 2012, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), declared President Mahama as the president-elect in the December 7 polls, as the NPP made a failed attempt to convince the EC boss to put the results on hold for 24 hours to enable the party to produce more evidence of alleged discrepancies that would have enormous impact on the final results.
The party promptly rejected the declared results and declared its resolve to seek redress at the Supreme Court.
At a press conference in Accra today, National Chairman of the NPP, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey stated: “I am happy to inform everybody here that suit number J1/6/13 has been duly filed at the Registry of the Supreme Court.”
He indicated that there were three named plaintiffs in the suit, namely Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawiumia and himself.
He also revealed that the party uncovered irregularities that not only favored the NDC presidential candidate, John Mahama but also some NDC parliamentary candidates in various parts of the country.
In the said petition filed at the highest court of the land, the NPP prayed that the Supreme Court declares:
(1) That John Dramani Mahama, the 2nd Respondent herein was not validly elected president of the Republic of Ghana.
(2) That Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 1st Petitioner herein, rather was validly elected President of the Republic of Ghana.
(3) Consequential orders as to this court may seem meet.
This is great for democracy, i hope and pray NPP wins this case cos ec did rig the elections for ndc, but in the worst case scenario, it will be a great precedent for the maturity of democracy, no more shall the ec simply rig the elections and others will just sit and watch like the PPP who claims their votes were also manipulated but refuses to got court, the outcome is that ghana democracy is maturing and the outcome is Ghana is the winner not ndc.
@Ball so hard miss dior, He sure did trust me, Most of the news presenters i know are now riding in flashy cars after the election. They contributed int he rigging by creating their own figures as well.. Justice must prevail. Nana deserves the seat and not that stupid fraudulent man who called himself drosmani. Ghana needs a change.
@Jeanie, It will prevail dear whether NDc likes it or not, the ghanaian media is just pathetic.
these people are so intelligent when it comes to exibiting dumbness. Now it not just the presidential seat but also some parliamentary seats. Its soo obvious that ghanaian arent dumb. You have brought up the issue of parliament because you know how ridiculous it will be to claim victory over people that obviousely have more and more seats than you. Come on now!!! Save yourselves this shame. There is a saying in my native tonge that short embarrassment are better than longer ones.
@lulu, It was so obvious ET mensah lost his seat and next minute he won. WTH is happening to our democratic system now?
@Jeanie, even if ET Mensahs issue is true, save his seat. how many seats will ndc have over the npp. Sweety let get real. Talking in high pitch and deep vioce doesnt mean you are talking fact.