Supreme Court will not waste time on NPP if… Alhaji Bature

Alhaji Iddrisu Bature, Managing Editor of the Al Hajj newspaper, has described the opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) evidence of fraud in the just ended elections as misinformation to the general public especially its supporters.

According to him, the evidence put out by the NPP after filing a petition at the Supreme Court is so bogus that the court will not waste its time on it and will strike it out.

The opposition NPP has challenged and rejected the results of election 2012 due to alleged rigging.

The party has since been evidences to challenge the results at the Supreme Court and hopes the court will overturn the verdict of the election based on its incontrovertible evidences.

The NPP after weeks of gathering evidences has finally filed a petition at the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results.

NPP believes that having scrutinized the results of about 26,000 polling stations across the country, over 1.34 million votes were wrongfully counted which aided in the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as winner of the polls.

They are hoping the Supreme Court will overturn the verdict of the election declared by EC.

The NPP immediately after filing the petition at the Supreme Court held a press conference spelling out some of the evidences they have been gathering.

However speaking on Asempa FM's current affairs Talkshow, Ekosii-Sen on Friday, Alhaji Bature hinted that the court will be forced to strike out NPP's case due to basic technicalities.

“I am sorry to say that if what I heard the NPP claiming to be the rigging is their evidence then the Supreme Court will not waste its time on NPP. If clearly what Bawumia read is the evidence they are presenting to the court, then I can assure all that it will be struck out easily due to basic technicalities and discrepancies. I don't know how any serious political party will present these as evidences in court”.

He noted that the request by the NPP that the Supreme Court invalidate the elections result and make Nana Addo president cannot be granted because it does not have that power.

“What the NPP and its supporters are requesting from the Supreme Court that Nana Addo be made president is not possible because it doesn't have that power. The Supreme Court cannot make Nana Addo president because it is the sole mandate of the EC. If they think the court can declare Nana winner of the elections, “tofiakwa”, it can never happen. Nana Addo wants to be made president through the back door, no way. What the Supreme Court can do is to nullify the results and call for fresh elections and not to make Nana president” he bellowed.

The NDC sympathizer asserted that since the NPP has no case on the just ended elections, what they have resorted to doing is to misinform and throw dust in the eyes of the public.

To him, the NPP started giving evidences of how the elections were rigged at the constituency levels but have now shifted the goalpost by juggling “all the so-called evidences together”.

“The NPP initially was telling us about their so-called rigging charge constituency by constituency but now they are totaling everything across the country. Why? Is it because they have seen that it is not enough? I thought they would tell us constituency by constituency, how many votes were added to president Mahama and those that were deducted from Nana Addo but because they are lying, everything have been put together. I am telling you, they have no case”.

“They are questioning the intelligence of the EC now not the so called rigging evidence. The NPP is telling us the conduct, compilation and tabulation of the elections and results were wrongfully done. Looking at their evidences, they contain nothing” he said.

He admonished the NPP to stop lying and misinforming the public because lying will not invalidate the election results as they wish. ”If the NPP is lying, they should lie with a little believe than what they are doing now. The lie of the NPP is so blatant”.

Alhaji Bature says the NPP's assertion that the election was rigged in excess of 1.34 million votes is illogical and baseless. “Look at the NPP claiming 1.34 votes were rigged for John Mahama is illogical. Check the performance of the NDC since 2000 and deduct 1.34 million from that of Mahama and see whether the NPP is making any sense. Are they saying Mahama got just about 4 million votes, they must be joking”.

The NDC sympathizer questioned the basis of the NPP press confab this afternoon immediately after filing their petition at the Supreme Court. “The most embarrassing thing about the NPP's petition is the press confab they organized. As apostles of rule of law they tout themselves, I thought the NPP will leave the case to the Supreme Court after filing the petition but has shamefully organized a press confab. The NPP is just covering their shame”.

He reckoned that the strategy of the NPP in organizing such a press confab after petitioning the Supreme Court, “is to win public sympathy, create credibility crisis for Mahama's rule, extend its shame after losing the election and finally to put the party in a front banner where it cannot go for presidential primaries until the case is settled. The NPP in all these attempts will fail because everybody have seen them”.

Story by Ghana/Asempa FM/Twum-Barima