Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says former President John Mahama and his legal team are unduly delaying the ongoing election petition because they have no evidence backing their case.
Lawyers for former President John Dramani Mahama have filed a fresh process at the Supreme Court seeking leave to amend earlier processes in the 2020 presidential election petition.
The new application was filed at the Supreme Court at 2:30 pm on Monday, January 25, 2021, ahead of appearance in Court Tuesday.
Speaking to this in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', Kojo Oppong Nkrumah wondered why the former President is not in a hurry to occupy the Jubilee House if indeed he won the election.
"Mahama and his legal team are finding it difficult to prove they really won the election. If indeed you won the election prove it and let Nana Addo be removed from the Jubilee House, but because they have an agenda they keep bringing in things like this . . . If we didn't win prove it and let's move on instead of this back and forth," he stated.
Listen to him in the video below
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I'm not a lawyer, and as a layman of the law I rely on a simple logic to make sense of what is going on in the S-court for the petition hearings. Normally, if you had decided to resolve a case by petitioning the court to do so, you might have logically thought intensively about it and known what to present before the court when the court so demands. It seems the petitioner is mainly relying too much on trivialities in terms of the attemps to sway the court from the proceedings which are by law regulated anyway, in the Ci-99. Hence, the substantive matter of the petition is lost in the process, had become inmaterial and cosmetic to date. Ironically, the interest of the petitioner is thus, totally lost.