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– Dr Clement Apaak wants John Mahama not to be challenged in 2024
– Mahama was beaten in 2016 and 2020 by Nana Akufo-Addo
– NDC MP believes ex-president won 2020 election
Builsa South MP Dr Clement Abas Apaak insisted that former President John Dramani Mahama won the 2020 presidential elections.
The former president, however, was refused his mandate by institutions whose leaders were “handpicked by his competitor to do just that,” said the lawmaker.
Source: Facebook
“The man won the 2020 presidential elections, this truth goes without saying,” he said in a tweet seen by YEN.com.gh.
Mahama therefore deserves a “free pass” to recover his stolen money order; Apaak said that “only JM can save Ghana!
After 17 sitting days, including five pre-trial days, the Supreme Court, on the 18th day of the hearing, dismissed the petition, declaring it to be unfounded.
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The seven-member panel of the just concluded 2020 election petition trial said it could not order a resumption of the 2020 presidential elections.
The panel found that the petitioner in the case had not presented “convincing evidence” to support his claims that there was no winner in the presidential elections on December 7, 2020.
Akufo-Addo defeated Mahama in said election to get another four-year term; receiving 51.302% of the votes cast against 47.359% of the latter.
The difference in votes between the two candidates was 517, 231, or four percentage points, one of the highest since 1996.
Mahama petitioned the Supreme Court, asking it to overturn the results declared by the President of the EC, Jean Mensa.
According to him, there was no winner of the election and that a resumption must be ordered between him and President Nana Akufo-Addo.
Legal expert Tsatsu Tsikata, who is Mahama’s lead lawyer in the election petition trial, described the court ruling as a “dangerous precedent.”
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Speaking on Pan-African TV KSM on Sunday March 14, 2021, he said the judgment meant that in any future, a chairman of the electoral commission and the returning officer in presidential elections can make a statement with ‘numbers which no one can really explain.
He added that the ruling will, in the long run, be seen as an “aberration”. “They won’t stand the test of time in my opinion, but we’ll see,” he said.
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