Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama says he will accept the results of the 2020 presidential election if the Electoral Commission conduct an independent audit of the results.
Mr Mahama and his party have rejected the results of the December 7 polls describing the election as damaged as they believe it was rigged.
According to the biggest opposition party, their analysis of the pink sheets available to them shows clearly that John Mahama won the election.
In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), he showed a just cause for the NDC position, adding that the issues raised cannot be swept under the carpet.
“We are currently doing a forensic audit of all the constituencies first to establish what happened and then confirm the figures that we have. Because this case might end up in court I don’t know, I cannot mention anything for now but we are doing an audit and based on that we will take whatever decision we need to take,” said by John Mahama
“But I think that in the interest of the more than 6 million people who voted for me, I must uphold our democracy and hold the Electoral Commission to a higher standard and hold this government in terms of our democracy.” Mr Mahama asserted.
He also said the way president Akufo Addo and the EC have conducted this election is a dent on our democratic credentials as a government, he added with my principle as a democrat I can’t be seen to be sweeping it under the carpet and let it go.
Ex-President added “I think that we must bring closure to this by seeing exactly where the issues are. If an independent audit is done by the EC, they will bring somebody in to crunch the numbers so the call for an independent audit. I will be the first person to concede and walk away. But as long as that is not done and I know that there was a deliberate attempt to challenge the will of the people in favour of the incumbent it will be wrong for me in terms of our democratic practices to just leave it because we will not learn the lessons of this election. I think we must learn the lessons of this election so that we don’t repeat it in the future one”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Frank Oteng
