Lawyers for President John Mahama as well as the National Democratic Congress have filed their affidavits at the Supreme Court, five days upon service of the three petitioners� affidavits to respond, in readiness for the substantive hearing of the election petition.
Hearing of the landmark electoral petition on the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as the winner of the December 2012 presidential polls begins at the Supreme Court in Accra Tuesday.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (1st petitioner), his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (2nd petitioner) and the party Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey (3rd petitioner), are challenging the validity of the Electoral Commission�s (EC) declaration of the NDC's candidate as President in the December 2012 general elections.
The petitioners are expected to call their first witness/and or witnesses Tuesday, depending on how long the witness/witnesses would testify and how long cross-examination would take and if need be, how long the re-examination lasts.
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