Inconsistencies in Mahama’s petition exposed – Oppong Nkrumah

Former Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the lead counsel for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Mr. Akoto Ampaw has been able to expose what he claimed are inconsistencies in the election petition filed by John Mahama, the 2020 presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He believes Mr. Ampaw did this through his cross-examination of General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia in the ongoing election petition case,

According to Oppong Nkrumah, Asiedu Nketia couldn’t substantiate any of the claims that forced Mahama to file the election petition.

He insisted that Mr. Akoto Ampaw used the day to correct “outright falsehoods” by the petitioner.

“We are of the view that today has been a big day in court and the big word today is ‘exposed’. You would notice that counsel on our side spent a lot of time exposing the inconsistencies and sometimes the outright falsehoods that have been put out by the petitioner (Mr. Mahama) and the witness who was in the witness box today. So when you juxtapose the earlier claims that they won and now what they are saying in the witness box today that they don’t know who won, you will realise there’s a discrepancy…One of the first things that the counsel on our side sort to do today was to expose the inconsistencies and sometimes outright falsehood by the petitioner and the witness,” he said.

The petitioner is asking the apex court to order a rerun of last year’s elections.