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Mahama to petition election results in Ghana

 

Ghana’s main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), which has been crying foul about the results of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, says it is ready to contest the outcome in court.
A member of the party’s legal team, Rockson Dafeamekpor, said on Saturday that the election petition against the results declared by the Electoral Commission (EC) will be filed by Wednesday.

“We’ll go to court. We’ve made that clear… Certainly, by Wednesday, all these matters would be placed before the court,” Mr Dafeamekpor was quoted by the local media as saying.

Under the electoral laws, the aggrieved party has 21 days to file its petition at the court.

This will be the second time in the Fourth Republic, which started in 1992, that the outcome of a presidential election will be challenged in court.

In 2012, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who was the candidate of New Patriotic Party (NPP), refused to concede to John Dramani Mahama and challenged the result in court.

After eight months, the Supreme Court rejected the petition and confirmed Mr Mahama as the winner.

 

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