Rulings in the judicial system are almost invariably based on precedent; so, it was patently absurd for anybody, legal maven or laity, to have expected the Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah-presided Supreme Court of Ghana (SCOG) to have granted the exact same request of the Jean Adukwei Mensa-headed Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) that the Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood-presided SCOG flatly refused or roundly rejected in the Akufo-Addo-led 2012 Presidential-Election Petition (See