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Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea says he cannot see how the respondents in the ongoing Presidential Election Petition will justify the irregularities the petitioners claim marred the 2012 December polls. According to him, any attempt to do so will amount to using a shovel to pull down the highest mountain in Ghana, Afadjato. Nana Akomea was commenting on the ongoing Election Petition before the Supreme Court which entered day 15 Monday. Counsel for the third respondent, Tsatsu Tsikata continued his cross-examination of the petitioners' key witness Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to discredit the evidence tendered in court. Mr. Tsikata has for the past eight days subjected Dr. Bawumia to strict scrutiny and it does not seem his cross-examination may end any time soon. However, on Asempa FM�s Ekosii Sen programme Monday, Nana Akomea said Mr. Tsikata�s cross-examination has rather made the petitioners case much stronger. He said throughout the cross-examination it has been established that there were indeed irregularities but it has been described as errors. Conceding that Mr. Tsikata is a brilliant lawyer, Nana Akomea said he [Tsatsu] is struggling in court because he is defending a bad case. The NPP Director of Communications called on all Ghanaians to brace themselves for a real expos� when the witness for the Electoral Commission takes the witness stance. He claimed that one of the observer groups has alleged that in one of the polling stations they visited, all the polling agents had signed the pink sheets even before the vote was cast. "The real trailer in the court case will happen when the EC mount the witness box. Everyone should be patient" he stressed. Nana Akomea called on NPP to relax and have confidence in the court.