The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah is reported to have made some damning comments about the 2020 election petition filed by former president John Mahama in a leaked audio-visual recording.

In the video, the male figure alleged to be Mr Asiedu Nketiah is heard saying that, the NDC had no substantial evidence to battle out it case at the Supreme Court.

The video goes on to tout that the NDC had no collated results.

As a result, Mr Asiedu allegedly said Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata, who represented the party at the apex court, had hesitated to take over the case.

Mr Tsikata rejected the first set of documentation which the party was seeking to rely on to challenge the Electoral Commission’s declaration in Court, per the video.

“So we consulted Tsatsu Tsikata on the matter. The following day, he returned our documents; stating that if this is what we have, then we have no case and that he cannot represent the party, so we should look for another lawyer”, the supposed "Asiedu Nketiah" revealed.

The collated results allegedly supervised by the party’s National Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo was poorly done, parts of the video stated.

The collated results, which were given him as a witness to the case "was nothing to write home about. If I had presented it to any court, I would have been embarrassed”.

The male figure in question blamed the party's defeat in the 2020 election on the Mr Ampofo.

He said the system Mr Ofosu-Ampofo brought was not effective, and broke down midway into the collation.

The truth is, we couldn't collate the 2020 election results.

There was no way we could have provided evidence to back our court Case~ Aseidu Nketiah admits

Sammy Gyamfi will not be happy 😂 pic.twitter.com/U7zkUYuR9l

— Emmanuel Debrah Drafor Amicable (@EmmanuelDrafor) December 13, 2022

Background

Former President John Mahama sought a redress at the apex court after the electoral Commission declared President Akufo-Addo as the winner of the fiercely 2020 general elections.

Nana Akufo-Addo who contested the election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won with 6,730,413 votes which represents 51.295 percent of the total valid votes cast.

Mr Mahama who rejected the outcome of the result by the EC, alleged that the election was marred with several anomaly.

He alleged that vote padding and other errors complained of by the petitioner affected the outcome of the Presidential Election results of 2020.

The Supreme Court in March 2021 ruled that although it finds the accusation of vote padding very serious, it observed that this allegation was not proven by the petitioner.

The Chief Justice said that the judges are therefore settled in their minds that even if there was vote padding, it did not in any way affect the outcome of the election results.