Mahama Files Motion At The Supreme Court To Correct Errors In His Election Petition
John Dramani Mahama, the 2020 presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to allow him to correct a ”mistake” in the petition he filed before the court, challenging the validity of the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The motion on notice for leave to amend his writ and petition, filed today (8 January 2021), was signed by Tony Lithur, solicitor for the petitioner.
Changes to be made
In his affidavit, the petitioner (John Mahama) says: “In indorsing on the Writ the addresses of the parties to be served, an error was made in the description and positioning of the parties in Paragraph 6, which l seek leave to correct.”
He said further: “In the relief numbered (f) on the Writ which was repeated in paragraph 35(f) of the Petition, there is typographical error in the third and fourth lines, which refers to ‘1st Respondent’ instead of ‘2nd Respondent’, which I also seek leave to correct.
Counsel has advised me that the parties to the petition have otherwise properly been indorsed on Writ and correctly described in the Petition. In the Appearances which Respondents have caused to be filed on their respective behalves, they acknowledge their correct and proper designations and descriptions.
“They would therefore not be prejudiced in any manner if the amendment is granted. A copy each of the proposed Amended Writ and Petition are attached and marked compositely as Exhibit ‘AMENDMENT 1’.
“I seek the amendment in good faith,” the petitioner said in the affidavit of petition in support of his motion.
Date for hearing
From the court documents sighted by AsaaseNews, the registrar of the Supreme Court has fixed Thursday 14 January 2021 as the date for the petitioner’s lawyers to move his motion before the court.