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Information Minister Designate and Spokesperson for the Legal Team of the Second Respondent in the Presidential Election Petition, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah believes the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been stripped naked during Monday's hearing of the case.
 
According to him, the Petitioner, Mr John Dramani Mahama and his witness, Johnson Asiedu Nketia who is affectionately called 'General Mosquito’ were "exposed" in their inconsistent claims challenging President Nana Addo’s victory in the December 7, 2020 polls.
 
His comments comes after counsel for the second respondent, Mr Akoto Ampaw ended cross examining Mr Asiedu Nketia Monday afternoon [February 1, 2020].

Mr Oppong Nkrumah told the media after the hearing that Mr Mahama and Johnson Asiedu Nketia were left with eggs on their faces in their preconceived attempts to dishonour the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) and Returning Officer for last year's Presidential Elections, Madam Jean Mensa.
 
“You'd notice that counsel on our side spent a lot of time exposing the inconsistencies and sometimes, even outright falsehoods that have been put out by the Petitioner and the witness who was in the witness box today,"
 
“We are of the view it's been a very good day in court that today the big word is exposed. In conclusion for us today, our view is that, if your case is bad, even the most skilful general will be exposed at cross-examination and that is what we believed has happened today....

"....when you juxtapose the earlier case of we won, now to what they are saying in the witness box, about they don't know who won, when you juxtapose that to some of the tapes we played about claims of 51% of their side now, to claims that they did not even bring numbers to court,

“If you juxtapose that between their petition that talks about vote pardon of a certain answer and now claim that it's only samples of that number, one of the first things that come to our side was to expose some of the inconsistencies and falsehoods that have been peddled by the Petitioner and the witness," he said.

Meanwhile, the case has been adjourned to Tuesday, February 2, 2021 where the second witness of the Petitioner will take his turn in the witness box for cross-examination.

Earlier in the day and moments before the court ended today's sitting, the panel of judges sought further clarity on certain responses by the witness during cross-examination.

The questions came from Justice Yaw Apau and the Chief Justice, His Lordship Anin Yeboah.

Perhaps it became pertinent for the bench to seek the clarifications because during cross examination by Mr Akoto Ampaw counsel for the second respondent, the NDC General Secretary as a witness, was non-commital on providing the figures in relation to the total valid votes cast saying that was not the case in court.

It was on that basis that the bench decided to probe further.