Information Minister-Designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said that the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing, Mr John Dramani Mahama has failed to provide a scintilla of evidence to show that no candidate in last year’s elections had 50 per cent plus one.

Even though the court has heard two key witnesses for the petitioner and cross examined same by the Respondents, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who speaks for the Second Respondent, insists nothing concrete has come from the petitioners yet.

The General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketiah was the first witness for the petitioner to appear in court last Friday and later on Monday.

Part of his evidence was struck out by the court after the Respondents made an application for same. His testimony sought to suggest that the 1st Respondent was shoddy in conducting the 2020 elections.

He cited errors made by the Chairperson of the 1st Respondent, Jean Mensa during the declaration of the election results on December 9, errors which were supposed to have been corrected in an unsigned statement issued on the 10th December 2020.

He was subjected to a rigorous cross examination by the Respondents after which the second witness for the petitioner Dr Kpessah Whyte took his turn in the dock.

Having been in the strong room at the national collation center in the offices of the 1st Respondent, Dr Whyte’s testimony centered on what happened at the strong room.

He accused the EC chair of deceit and showing “bad faith” when she “instructed” the NDC representatives to leave the strongroom and go have a discussion with the petitioner.

According to him, not long after they left did, the EC Chairperson declare the results contrary to the agreement they had with her.

On cross examination, the witness admitted that the EC chair had no power to instruct them out of the offices. He also admitted that he never spoke directly to the EC chair on the day but the instruction was given to his colleague in the strongroom, Rojo Mettle Nunoo.

The petitioner is likely to call a third witness on Friday.

Ahead of that though, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is convinced the petitioner has yet to provide anything of evidential value to substantiate the claim they have made.

In a tweet, the Ofoase Ayirebi lawmaker said “The Petitioner has called 2 out of 5 advertised witnesses. The expectation is that they would have proved by now that no one got 50%. That hasn’t happened yet.

“On Friday we shall hopefully be back in court to hear the Petitioner attempt to establish proof to back his case.”