A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has said the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama had his first victory in the hearing of the election petition when he was granted the permission to correct the errors in his petition filed at the Supreme Court challenging the presidential results of last year’s elections.
Although the respondents objected to the request Mr. Mahama made to be allowed to right the wrongs in his petition, the justices of the apex court gave him the nod to correct the mistakes.
After Day 1 of the hearing on Thursday, January 14, Asare Otchere-Darko who is also a private legal practitioner said “petitioner, @JDMahama got the 1st victory this morning when the court granted his application to correct errors, which was opposed by the respondents.
“The petitioner is asking the court for a rerun because of errors in declaring results. Respondents say those errors were corrected!”
