2020 election petition: Paul Adom-Otchere predicts NDC's witnesses

Kandey Alhassan January 06, 2021 0

Paul Adom Otchere

In his election petition hearing at the Supreme Court, Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana, conducted some speculation of the five people likely to be used as witnesses by John Dramani Mahama.

John Mahama stated that he would rely on five witnesses for his petition in his case that was filed by his lawyers.

Paul Adom-Otchere appointed Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC, Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader of the 7th Parliament, and Dr Kpessa Whyte, a leading member of the NDC, as his witness on the Tuesday, January 5, 2021 edition of his show.

Former Attorney-General Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong and the other two individuals he believes that Mahama will use as witnesses are former Attorney-General Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong and Rojo Mettle Nunoo, one of the NDCs agents in the strongroom at the EC headquarters during the elections.

“If President Mahama is going to call five witnesses then we believe Asiedu Nketia will be part. He is the General Secretary of the NDC and has a community of interest. He is granted more interviews on the petition than perhaps he has done in the whole four years”.

“Haruna Iddrisu has had a field day about this election, leading members of Parliament to the EC office and taking interest in the Techiman South case. He is the Minority Leader and has been interested in the Parliamentary situation”.

“Dr Kpessa Whyte is important to this process because besides being a member of the party, he was in the EC strongroom where the collation and signatories were being made. It has been reported that he had exited the room to deliver a message to president Mahama and by the time he returned as they put it, the declaration had been done”.

Similar remarks about Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong and Mettle Nunoo were also passed on by Adom-Otchere as he explained why they will be part of the witness list.

As it is known, John Mahama filed a petition with the Supreme Court questioning the results of the presidential election on 7 December.

A re-run of the elections is the big relief he seeks because he insists that neither he nor Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party clocked the 50 percent plus one vote mark.