The main opposition New Patriotic Party says its 2012 Flagbearer and his two co-petitioners challenging the presidential results of last year need only have the Supreme Court nullify 1,500 polling station results to “oust” President John Mahama.The Party, in a statement dated Sunday June 16, 2013 said its Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on the obverse, needs results of 3,500 polling stations added to his declared results, to overturn President Mahama’s victory.The Party says it therefore wonders why the three respondents in the case are obsessed with media speculations and reports that the pink sheets tendered in evidence to support the case of rigging, are not up to the 11,842 insistently claimed by the Petitioners in Court.Initial media reports indicated that the audited pink sheets hovered around 13, 900 but subsequent cross-checking with the pack of the Supreme Court Bench’s lot has brought the number down to about 9,800, a deficit of about 2000 sheets.However, the NPP says: “Should the petitioners manage to annul results from just 1,500 polling stations, it would mean that John Mahama would not have secured the required 50%+1 of the votes needed for a first round win and, thus, a run-off would have to be held for the winner of the polls to be known”.The statement noted that: “The category of irregularity with the lowest number of polling stations being challenged is the category of the ‘No presiding officer signature’ where the petitioners are praying the court to annul results from 1,739 polling stations”.It says: “If the court upholds the argument of the petitioners and annuls only these 1,739 polling stations, that would see John Mahama tumbling down from the 50.7% declared for him by Dr. ...
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