Adwoa Safo: NPP’s Court Evidence Is Overwhelming

Legal practitioner and Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo has disclosed that the evidence that the opposition New Patriotic Party has garnered in relation to the pending election case before the Supreme Court is “overwhelming” and “simple arithmetic.”

Lawyer Adwoa Safo, speaking on Citi FM’s “Big Issue” program over the weekend, questioned the ability of the 4800 witnesses, disclosed by President John Mahama, to testify against the petitioners’ allegations of electoral fraud during the 2012 Presidential elections.

"The evidence that we have is overwhelming. It is pressing and what I always tell my people is that this is simple arithmetic. One plus one can never be fifteen. If you call 4700 witnesses, can they testify to say that one plus one is fifteen?”

She believed the court will overrule the respondents’ testimony if their witnesses in the case do not contribute anything substantially to the pending case.

“With my little law that I’ve studied and nine years at the bar…what I know is that it’s not about quantitative evidence when you are before a court. It’s about qualitative. If you call 10000 and there’s no quality in the evidence that they give or they all come and there’s nothing substantial or new that they are telling the court, you think the court will allow them to go on and on and waste everybody’s time. We believe in the court system,” she said.

The New Patriotic Party under the auspices of its Presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, the party’s National Chairman, petitioned the Supreme Court to arbitrate their electoral dispute with the Electoral Commission and President John Mahama.

The petitioners are challenging the 2012 electoral results.

They claimed in an amended petition to the court that there were irregularities in 11916 polling stations across the country and therefore prayed the Supreme Court to nullify the results in these polling stations.