Ghana’s Supreme Court will tomorrow, March 4, deliver judgement in the much-awaited Election 2020 Petition trial.
The seven-member panel, presided over by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, had asked lawyers for the parties in the case to file their closing written addresses.
Lawyers for the Petitioner (former President John Dramani Mahama), first Respondent (the Electoral Commission), and the Second Respondent (President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo) had all filed their closing addresses.
The Petitioner called three witnesses - Dr Michael Kpessa Whyte, Mr Joseph Robert Mettle-Nunoo, both members of the National Democratic Congress, and Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the Party.
Ghana’s Supreme Court will today, March 4, deliver judgement in the much-awaited Election 2020 Petition trial.
The seven-member panel, presided over by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, had asked lawyers for the parties in the case to file their closing written addresses.
Lawyers for the Petitioner (former President John Dramani Mahama), first Respondent (the Electoral Commission), and the Second Respondent (President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo) had all filed their closing addresses.
The Petitioner called three witnesses – Dr Michael Kpessa Whyte, Mr Joseph Robert Mettle-Nunoo, both members of the National Democratic Congress, and Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the Party.
The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in last year’s elections, John Dramani Mahama, says by the conduct of the current Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), it is not qualified to superintend over any elections in the country.
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BY: Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson
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All eyes will be on the Supreme Court tomorrow when the court delivers judgement in the 2020 presidential election petition.
It is the second presidential election petition in the history of the country, call it “round two” between former President John Dramani Mahama (petitioner), and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (second respondent).
At the centre of this legal battle is the Electoral Commission (EC) (first respondent), the independent constitutional body responsible for the organisation of public elections, whose decisions and alleged mistakes form the subject matter of the petition.
The petition was filed on December 30, last year, and over a period of 55 days, a seven-member panel of the apex court, presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Annin Yeboah, has also been hearing counter arguments from respondents (EC and Akufo-Addo) who have mounted a two-pronged response.