In 2024, Mahama said, "We'll go to the EC strongroom with our own tea and biscuit."

National Collation Center, often known as the "strongroom" of the Electoral Commission (EC), party agents would come with their own tea and buy their own biscuits, according to opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential hopeful John Dramani Mahama.

Rojo Mettle- Nunoo and Dr. Kpessah Whyte, who represented the party at the collation Center, were accused of negligence in the petition for the 2020 presidential election that John Dramani Mahama, the NDC's presidential nominee, filed with the Supreme Court.

This came after the pair claimed that the head of the Electoral Commission, Jane Mensah, had "tricked" them into leaving the building to visit Mr. Mahama before announcing the results behind their backs.

In one instance of cross-examination by Justin Amenuvor, the lead counsel of the Electoral Commission (EC), the former Deputy Health Minister Rojo Mettle- Nunoo said, "I was offered tea, I wasn't offered any biscuit" as he waited for the Electoral Commissioner to clarify some anomaly he had noticed in some of the results.

Rojo Mettle-Nuno and Dr. Kpessah Whyte, the second and third witnesses, respectively, for petitioner John Mahama, were told by the Supreme Court that they should take responsibility for leaving the National Collation Centre because they failed to perform their duty of strict observation of the collation process and as a result, must bear the consequences.

On Tuesday, John Mahama spoke to NDC delegates at Ashaley Botwe in the Greater Accra Region as part of a nationwide campaign tour in advance of the party's presidential primaries. He also added, [on a lighter note], that the party's representatives at the strongroom will be given their own tea and cookies.

"We won't be sleeping. At the collation centers, we will match them. Until every vote is counted, we will remain in the collation centers. In the safe of the EC, we'll match them. We don't want tea or a biscuit this time. We will make our own tea for the people we choose to accompany to the strongroom, and we will purchase digestive biscuits for their trip.

According to Mr. Mahama, the NDC's determination to oversee the election results will not be diminished by the EC being overrun with members of the current government's New Patriotic Party.

"Because they are worried about losing the 2024 election, they have started appointing NPP activists to the Electoral Commission in order to exert control over the referee. However, when I say that the election is a "Do or Die affair," I mean that regardless of whether they nominate the NPP chairman to the electoral commission, we will go boot to boot with them. Since we don't want to cheat anyone, but we also don't want anyone to cheat us, we will match them at the polling places. Therefore, we'll mark them at the voting place to ensure that no excess ballots accidentally fall into the ballot box.

Mr. Mahama urged NDC branch and constituency executives to fully participate in the voting processes in their respective polling places and to exercise extreme caution.

"voting places are when elections are won or lost. You have voting places in all of your branches. You will be in charge of maintaining security at the voting locations. We will rely on you to ensure that the election in your polling place is free, fair, and transparent because the campaigning in the polling place will be in your hands. Additionally, we are putting in place a reliable system that will enable us to communicate the results, and you, the branch and constituency executives, will be participating. We will come and explain the new system to you.