The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Richard Ahiagbah, is calling on the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) to sanction the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawyers who led an election petition charge built on, according to him, "lies and fabrication".

This call comes on the back of a leaked audio in which the current NDC General Secretary, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, was heard confessing to some party delegates in the Ashanti Region that the NDC had to contest the 2020 election results in court without the collated results because its IT system crashed.

Mr Ahiagbah made the call in a statement dated Wednesday, 14 December 2022.

He said it was unfortunate and a waste of the time of the court as well as of individual resources.

Mr Ahiagbah believes sanctioning the lawyers will help discourage such forays and bring sanity into the political atmosphere in connection with election disputes in the country.

He also admonished members of political parties to have their facts right and intact before engaging in legal battles so as not to drag any government backwards.