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One of the Spokespersons for President Akufo-Addo on the 2020 election petition and National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye has alleged that former President Mahama is seeking to withdraw his election petition from the Supreme Court.

He says the legal team of the former President is trying everything possible to frustrate the process to enable them to withdraw their case and blame it on the Supreme Court judges.

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 election, former President John Dramani Mahama has filed a fresh motion asking the Supreme Court to halt the presidential election petition until the final determination of the application for review regarding his interrogatories.

This comes after the Apex Court, had on Tuesday (January 19) dismissed the former president’s application for interrogatories, which sought to ask the court to grant leave for the Electoral Commission (1st respondent) to answer 12 questions regarding the declaration of the presidential election results.

According to former president Mahama (petitioner), commencing the hearing without a determination of the review application will lead to an “irreparable harm” to the conduct of the case.

Lead counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata had informed the court last Wednesday (January, 20) that they had filed an application that was asking the court to review its decision on the application for interrogatories.

According to him, the Apex Court “breached some fundamental errors of law” by dismissing the application hence the need for it to review its decision.

But speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' program, he explained that the NDC and their former leader seem not to be adequately prepared for their own election petition and they are seeking to practically delay the processes of the court proceedings, and be able to appeal to their followers when they so desire to withdraw from their election petition from the Supreme Court. 

He maintained that the former President and his NDC went into the election petition unprepared because they had no case right from the beginning. They only sought to appease their members by intentionally going to the Supreme Court just to prove nothing and that is what they are doing.

Other than that how can you at every point be challenging the processes of the Supreme Court when there are clear-cut rules governing the election petition.

"This petition was also even drafted when the NDC's own Marrietta Brew Oppong was Attorney General and Minister for Justice, so what has changed now," he quizzed.