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Takyiman South Constituency MP on the ticket of the NDC, Hon. Agyei Mensah has calmed nerves of their party sympathizers to exercise patience because if the election petition goes against the NDC government, President Mahama has the chance to go for a review on the case. He said the NPP petitioners are just wasting their time over this case which will bring electoral reforms into the electoral system; adding that there is no ground for the petitioners� allegations because they have not been able to prove to the court that some of their votes were given to President Mahama. Speaking on Okay FM, he said the petition in court is more of administrative errors than electoral irregularities which the petitioners want everybody to believe. �Do you know that this will bring nothing to the court case; I want to tell the NPP to forget this case and think of the next election, because even if NDC loses the election petition, President Mahama has the chance to go for a review on the case,� the NDC MP indicated in his submission. He further said that the petitioners have not been able to prove effectively with the issue of voting without verification as errors occurred when the presiding officers answered the questionnaires of voting wrongly; stressing that there was no indication that some votes were added to candidate John Mahama which he did not deserve. Touching on double serial numbers, the NDC MP said that there was special voting and normal voting at the same polling station and so it is possible to get the same serial numbers; adding that another issue the petitioners have failed to realize is that some of the polling stations have huge number of voters and so in the wisdom of the EC the polling stations were divided into two to help every voter to go through the verification on time. In view of the division of some polling stations, the EC informed the NPP to provide polling agents for the divided stations, hence the same serial numbers at different polling stations; stressing that it is not true that additional polling stations were created without the knowledge of the NPP because their polling agents were at these 22 polling stations even though they were not captured in the earlier data.