Defence in electoral fraud case clutching at straws

Dear Editor,
It has long been a delaying tactic by the defence in that electoral fraud case, and is just another obstructionist move placed in the way of an already protracted case. The defence counsel is, at this eleventh hour, asking that the court rule on Section 140 (2) of the Representation of The People’s Act (ROPA); which, in Nigel Hughes’s terms, obstructs a fair trial for his clients.
He somehow convinced the presiding magistrate to seek a judicial review of the matter in the higher court. How successful he would be is yet to be determined. He is also asking for the minutes of GECOM during that period.
What Nigel Hughes is actually saying is that once GECOM’s minutes reflect the greenlight for a declaration to be made, then Mingo was duly authorized to make the declaration he made, and Lowenfield was in order to certify that declaration as the final results of the election.
Wrong! Not so fast, Mr. Hughes. Those figures declared by Mingo ought to have been figures carbon copied from the SOPs, as expressed by the Chief Justice in her ruling. That declaration was to be of figures gleaned from the SOPs, and nowhere else.
So, whether he used a spreadsheet, or whatever the means he chose to use, those figures ought to have been the exact reflection of the SOPs of the election. This is the question the fraud team has to answer. Whatever the method he chose, the figures contained therein must come from the votes cast for the election, and not from some voodoo concoction of his own.
This is the nonsensical idea Nigel Hughes wants a court to buy into, which in anyone’s view, even if you had half a brain, you cannot accept. So, try as he would, defence counsel has the onerous task to convince a court of law. Therefore, we eagerly await the trial.

Respectfully submitted
Neil Adams