The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) provide solid evidence to back their claims that President John Dramani Mahama was behind the petition to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.

This follows accusations made by the former General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, who suggested that President Mahama personally wrote the petition in an attempt to replace the Chief Justice.

In an interview with Citi News on Tuesday, May 6, Dr. Rashid Tanko-Computer, the NDC's Deputy Director of Elections and IT, rejected the allegations, calling them unfounded.

He also commented on the NPP’s recent electoral loss, suggesting that the party’s disorientation and frustration were the reasons behind such baseless claims.

He further pointed out that Prof. Kwaku Ansah’s petition to remove the Chief Justice was also a matter of interest and questioned whether that petition had been authored by Nana Akufo-Addo as well.

“In that case, they are telling us something we don’t know. And that is, when they were in power, all the petitions that Nana Akufo-Addo received, were drafted at the Flagstaff House, or written by him. Maybe they are revealing what they were doing.

“In any case, then Prof Kwaku Ansah, wrote a petition seeking the removal of the chief justice, was that written by Nana Akufo-Addo?

“You see because they lost, it has affected their thinking capabilities. So, they just open their mouth and anything that comes out doesn’t make sense to anybody,” he stated.