2020 Polls: I’ll concede defeat after independent audit of results – Mahama
Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) John Mahama says he’ll accept the results of the 2020 presidential election if the Electoral Commission conducts an independent audit of the results.
Mr. Mahama and his party have rejected the results of the December 7 polls describing the election as flawed.
According to the NDC, their analysis of the pink sheets available to them shows clearly that Mr Mahama won the elections.
In an interview with Voice of America(VOA) Mr. Mahama showed a just cause for the NDC’s position, adding that the issues raised cannot be swept under the carpet.
“We are currently doing a forensic audit of all the constituencies first to establish what happened and then confirm the figures that we have. Because this case might end up in court…I don’t know, I cannot mention anything for now but we are doing an audit and based on that we’ll take whatever decision we need to take.
“But I think that in the interest of the more than 6million people who voted for me, I must uphold our democracy and hold the Electoral Commission to a higher standard and hold this government to a higher standard in terms of our democracy. The way President Akufo Addo and the EC have conducted this elections is a dent on our democratic credentials as a government. And so with my principles as a democrat, I can’t be seen to be sweeping it under the carpet and letting it go.”
Ex-President Mahama added: “I think that we must bring closure to this by seeing exactly where the issues are. If an independent audit is done by the EC, they’ll bring somebody in to crunch the numbers do an independent audit why not, I’ll be the first person to concede and walk away. But as long as that is not done and I know that there was a deliberate attempt to subvert the will of the people in favour of the incumbent it will be wrong for me in terms of our democratic practices to just leave it because we’ll not learn the lessons of this election. I think we must learn the lessons of this election so that we don’t repeat it in future one.”
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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This man is just a chronic liar,and we are getting more and more tired of his whining. This is Ghana's Donald Trump. Started his journey of lies by casting doubts on the EC that the election would most certainly be not fair. His can all unrelated private and public tv and radio stations across the country who posted journalist at each polling station have the same election results as other political parties and the EC itself,but only Mahama's Ndc collated different results. Mind boggling. It's about time ndc party followers wake up and start drilling it's twisted national executives. Perhaps Mahama is being ***barred word*** by them,who in turn is trying to ***barred word*** Ghanaians.This is ridiculous. Ghanaians chose Nana Addo cos his governance and benefits from his governance far outweighed Mahama's governance that dragged Gh into economic hardship,landing us under IMF control which further gave us more hardship with their struct rules. But when it came to parliamentarians,Ghanaians picked their choice depending on the performance of each incumbent MP. Some incumbents did not work hard enough,thinking they could ride on the back of Pres Nana Addo's favoured achievements. Shows that Ghanaians are waking up to understand democracy and the power of their thumbs better. Unfortunately,there are still some voters who voted according to tribe or party, not achievements,but they are reducing steadily by the increasing numbers of more discerning swing voters