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He said this in an interview with Kwaku Sintim Misa on Pan African TV. “…And that’s why I would humbly say that it’s a dangerous precedent because what it means essentially is that in any future election, a chairperson and the Returning Officer can come and make an announcement with numbers which nobody can really explain and those numbers do not also meet the constitutional threshold of 50%+1 and later come and say there was a mistake and there is no explanation as to how those mistakes occurred.” Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah Pulse Ghana Mr. Tsikata insisted that the ruling implies that the Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission (EC) can in future elections declare a candidate as a winner with wrong figures and no one can hold him or her accountable.
The Lead counsel for the petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition, Tsatsu Tsikata has confirmed that all the Supreme Court Justices who heard the 2020 Election Petition were his former students.