A leading member of the National Democratic Congress Rojo Mettle Nunoo will on Friday mount the witness box as the third witness for former President John Dramani Mahama in the ongoing election petition hearing at the Supreme Court.
Mettle Nunoo was one of the agents assigned to monitor the collation of election results at the national collation center known as the ‘Strong Room’ for the National Democratic Congress.
However, it emerged that he and his colleague Dr. Michael Kpessa Whyte left the center at a point to consult with their flagbearer on some issues of irregularities. The move they said was at the behest of the Electoral Commission Chairperson Jean Mensah.
Mr Mettle-Nunoo filed his witness statement Thursday and is expected to be cross-examined by lawyers for the two respondents, the Electoral Commission (EC) and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo) at the supreme courts next sitting on Friday February 5, 2020.
Lead counsel for the petitioner Tsatsu Tsikata made a request to the SC to be heard in chambers on matters that relate to their next witness who they indicated was suffering a medical condition.
However, it is gathered that his cross-examination may not take the usual form.
The second witness for the petitioner (John Dramani Mahama) Dr. Kpessa Whyte had told the Supreme Court that Rojo Mettle Nunoo, who was one of Mr. Mahama’s representative at the Electoral Commission’s national collation center during the December 7 elections, erroneously endorsed results of a region that were objected to by the NDC’s representatives in the region.
According to Dr. Michael Kpessa Whyte, although the party’s regional agents of the Western North Region refused to endorse results from the region on grounds that some of the results were manipulated and had indicated their concern on the results’ form, his colleague agent, mettle Nunoo endorsed the said results when they got to the national collation center in Accra.
Mr. Mettle Nunoo after signing the election results form from the Western North Region and realizing his mistake, Dr. Kpessa Whyte claimed, then drew the attention of the EC’s official in charge to the error he had committed.
Dr. Kpessa Whyte said this in refuting assertion by counsel for the 1st respondent (Electoral Commission) that none of the NDC’s regional representative made complaint about alleged irregularities with the presidential election results as claimed by the petitioner in his petition.
