General News of 2013-01-09 EC’s response to NPP’s challenge is just grammar - Jake

The opposition New Patriotic Party has described the Electoral Commission’s response to their petition to the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of the 2012 December elections, as nothing but grammar, which had nothing to say about the details of the case. Addressing a news conference at the NPP’s Headquarters in Accra on Wednesday January 9, 2013, Party Chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey said: “They spend more time and energy debating vocabulary by quoting definitions of adjectives from dictionaries than they spent defending to the Ghanaian people why, despite being funded by the taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of millions of cedis, they ran an election in which 1 in every 8 votes will have to be thrown out.” Read the full statement below : 9th January 2013 PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW PATRTIOTIC PARTY, JAKE OBETSEBI LAMPTEY, ON THE 9TH OF JANUARY 2012 AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PARTY We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen of the press, to our maiden press encounter in 2013. We wish you all a blessed and prosperous 2013 and hope that this New Year will see an even better partnership between us in helping to deepen our democracy.

Today, we’d like to provide you with an update on NPP’s recent activities in pursuit of justice and the status of the petition brought before the Supreme Court of Ghana by three distinguished members of our party. We undertake this battle of justice – not merely for the more than 5 million people who voted for our party, and certainly not for the glory of our Presidential candidate – but on behalf of all Ghanaians, including those yet unborn, and indeed Africans from across the continent who are watching our case and looking to Ghana to pave the way forward. Our nation has always been at the forefront of democratic change and political progress, and we are confident that the wisdom and foresight of our justices will make our beacon of democracy shine even brighter. continued