Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) planning committee, Alex Segbefia, has revealed that the NDC’s 2020 election petition was to challenge the poll figures from the Electoral Commission (EC).
According to Mr Segbefia, there had been misconceptions among the citizenry about the case that the NDC took to court, and what was petitioned in court.
He explained on JoyNews’ The Probe on Sunday, that both of the aforementioned issues were entirely different.
“We didn’t go to court on our figures, we went to court challenging the figures that were from the EC,” he told host, Blessed Sogah.
Mr Segbefia further emphasised that the problem was not based on the figures that various political parties believed they attained during the elections.
Rather, the party’s lack of confidence in the results provided by the EC was the key focus of the election lawsuit.
Although he agreed that the NDC needed figures to challenge the EC’s poll figures, he questioned the EC’s credibility by citing an instance where the figures recorded in a polling station’s pink sheet did not add up.
“We had a pink sheet from the same polling station registered, all signed with different figures, what does that tell you about how many sheets were in circulation? Whose pink sheet were you going to rely on and what did that mean?”
From this disclosure, Mr Segbefiah asserted that the 2020 election petition was lost because of a misconception about the case that the NDC took to court.
Source: myjoyonline