Alex Segbefia: Respondents Should Throw Out Petitioners Case In Ongoing 2012 Election Contestation

Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Alex Segbefia has asked the respondents in the ongoing Presidential election case before the Supreme Court to throw out the petitioners’ case for failing to present supposedly accurate number of pink sheets to the court.


He identified some flaws in the petition, claiming that the petitioners in the persons of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 2012 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), his Running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the party’s Chair Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey did not do due diligence while filing their petition to the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

He wondered why there are several inaccuracies in the figures the petitioners gave to the respondents’ Counsel.

Speaking to Radio Gold, he strongly held that the respondents should apply to have the figures revised and properly filed at the court Registry.

According to him, the errors in the pink sheets have rendered the case unreliable and so, said “it’s open to the respondents to make an application for the case to be thrown out if the disparity in the numbers so has been filed is so vast that in actual fact it changes or dents the view that you take of what your case actually is.”

“If it just turned out that the disparity of almost 2000 figures [2000 pink sheets] which add up to a huge number of votes, then what actually is your case and is it sufficient for you to say that you have brought this case properly before the court?” he questioned.

He further argued that if the petitioners insist that the respondents should limit themselves to the facts and figures on the pink sheets, then they (respondents) equally should expect them to do accurate count of the pink sheets.

“I believe that the respondent will then have basis to say that, look, they are not properly before the court. The case is now going to have to change. They have to go and revise all the figures that they have given to us…” he stated.

In his view, the fact that the Polling agents of the opposition New Patriotic Party appended their signatures to the pink sheets signified that “they were satisfied with the process. They were satisfied with what had happened. Is it beyond the bounds of belief that actually this was one of the cleanest and fair elections, that’s why their polling agents did not do anything?”

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana