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A private legal pratitioner, David Adu-Tutu Jnr. says former President John Dramani Mahama will lose his Presidential petition at the Supreme Court.

According to lawyer Adu-Tutu Jnr., from the way the court proceedings are going, there is no way the verdict will go in favour of the petitioner because he hasn't been able to prove nor challenge anything based on facts and evidence.

President Mahama's Witnesses

Johnson Asiedu Nketia

During the court proceedings, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia testifying for former President John Mahama faced a barrage of questions from Justice Appau, a member of the Supreme Court Panel.

Justice Appau asked: "Now, in all the figures that were mentioned and the valid votes cast and all those things, you were saying “if the figures were correct, if the figures were correct,” and that there were inconsistencies in the figures. I want to ask you: now, in your own calculation, what were the total valid votes cast in the presidential elections on 7 December 2020. In your own calculations.''

Mr. Asiedu Nketia replied: ''My Lord, those calculations are reserved for a meeting for us to reconcile the figures, because the 1st Respondent [EC] herself keep changing the figures.''

''Excuse me, Mr Asiedu Nketiah, help the court. You see, when you started giving evidence, you said you had representatives across the 275 constituencies. You said you put agents [there] and they were to collate the figures. You said it. Then he’s asking you, that from that, what figure did you get? You'', the Judge followed up.

''My Lord, I haven’t brought that figure to court...My Lord, I don’t have those figures here'', Mr. Asiedu Nketia further responded.
 
Michael Kpessa-Whyte

Dr. Michael Kpessa-Whyte, former National Service Secretariat boss on Tuesday, the second witness also mounted the witness box to testify for former President John Mahama and told the court that the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensa instructed him and another person to go and deliver a message to the former President.

He noted that they were on their way when the EC Chairperson declared President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo winner of the elections.

Dr. Michael Kpessa-Whyte however indicated that although there was an instruction from the Chairperson of Mrs. Jean Mensa to go to the former President John Mahama, he did not personally speak to her.

“My Lord, the second respondent (Jean Mensa) instructed us to leave the strong room and consult with our flagbearer on some irregularities. We were looking at results coming in region by region for it to be compared with the values on the regional summary on the screen and this process never happened'', he said.

John Mahama Has Lost

Speaking on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', lawyer Adu-Tutu Jnr. stated that he noticed the petitioner has lost his case during the cross-examination of his witnesses.

In the case of Mr. Asiedu Nketia, lawyer Adu-Tutu said the moment Mr. Asiedu Nketia failed to provide the total valid votes in court exposed the hollows in the election petition.

He said; ''In law, if you want to challenge a Presidential election, it means you're challenging the validity of the election, not the validity of a declaration'', hence ''looking at how the petition is going, from the way I see, from the evidence that has been given; I think, in the end, it won't favour the NDC . . . I think we will go back and forth but at the end, they will lose . . . When I assess the proceedings, the evidence and the cross-examination, I think it will be very difficult for them to win".