Election 2020: You Didn’t Do Your Homework – NPP to Mahama
The NPP maintained that Nana Addo won the elections by a 'wide margin'
Jonas Danquah 
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed calls by the NDC flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama for an independent audit of the 2020 results.
Mr Mahama has rejected the election results released by the Electoral Commission (EC), on the grounds that some figures were manipulated, though he is yet to present the full evidence of the claims.
The former president has called for an independent probe into the elections, to address the concerns of the opposition.
However, the General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, questioned the relevance of the suggested 'audit'.
"why all of a sudden we are hearing about auditing”
“Where does this place in our political arrangements? Instead of you to do your work by independently collating your results, you are shirking the responsibilities. Where in our democracy does this fit into?” he criticised Mr Mahama as quoted by theghanareport.
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Mr Boadu, who addressed a press conference on Tuesday, December 15 maintained that: “Nana Akufo-Addo won the elections with a huge margin. It is a huge feat. The difference between the two candidates was 517,231 so the presidential elections were not even close, so there was nothing contentious about it in the first place. I think it is better for him to come to terms with his loss. He lost by a huge margin and he should just accept it.”
He was responding to an interview with the Voice of America’s (VOA) Peter Clottey in which Mr Mahama said the just-ended polls was “the most incompetent elections we’ve had. I mean, everything about this election does not reach the standards that Ghana’s Electoral Commission has attained for itself”.
Mahama had argued that it would “be useful for us to do a forensic audit of the EC’s own systems and the numbers to come to what the final number for the EC is because as of now, I don’t know what number they are going to gazette.”
According to him, there were “deliberate attempts to subvert the will of the people in favour of the incumbent”.
