Legal practitioner and Member of
Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo has
disclosed that the evidence that the opposition New Patriotic Party has
garnered in relation to the pending election case before the Supreme
Court is “overwhelming” and “simple arithmetics.”
Lawyer Adwoa
Safo, speaking on Citi FM’s “Big Issue” program over the weekend,
questioned the ability of the 4800 witnesses, disclosed by President
John Mahama, to testify against the petitioners’ allegations of
electoral fraud during the 2012 Presidential elections.
"The
evidence that we have is overwhelming. It is pressing and what I always
tell my people is that this is simple arithmetics. One plus one can
never be fifteen. If you call 4700 witnesses, can they testify to say
that one plus one is fifteen?”
She believed the court will
overrule the respondents’ testimony if their witnesses in the case do
not contribute anything substantially to the pending case.
“With
my little law that I’ve studied and nine years at the bar…what I know is
that it’s not about quantitive evidence when you are before a court.
It’s about qualitative. If you call 10000 and there’s no quality in the
evidence that they give or they all come and there’s nothing substantial
or new that they are telling the court, you think the court will allow
them to go on and on and waste everybody’s time. We believe in the court
system,” she said.
The New Patriotic Party under the auspices of
its Presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, running mate,
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, the party’s National
Chairman, petitioned the Supreme Court to arbitrate their electoral
dispute with the Electoral Commission and President John Mahama.
The petitioners are challenging the 2012 electoral results.
They
claimed in an amended petition to the court that there were
irregularities in 11916 polling stations across the country and
therefore prayed the Supreme Court to nullify the results in these
polling stations.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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