The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the review application seeking to reverse its own judgement that a Deputy Speaker of Parliament has a voting right while presiding. The nine-member review panel presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, in dismissing the review application, said it fell short of the set threshold and had no…
John Dramani Mahama, the Presidential Candidate of the NDC in the 2020 election, got his Election Petition dismissed by the Supreme Court of Ghana for lack of merit.
In the two-hour judgement of the seven-member panel delivered by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah last Thursday, March 4, the Justices identified some loopholes in the answers of Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Principal Witness One, when the latter was cross-examined.
The Chief Justice describing Johnson Asiedu Nketia as the ‘star witness’ for the Petitioner, John Dramani Mahama stated that the Petitioner was not in “Court to challenge the validity of the figures or data presented by the Chairperson of 1st Respondent that is why in his testimony, he did not provide any data to contradict that of the 1st Respondent.”
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BY: Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson
Category: General News
Former President John Mahama (the petitioner) and his running mate, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang exiting the Supreme Court Complex
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The Supreme Court has granted a motion by former President John Dramani to amend his election petition which is challenging the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
In the amendment, former President Mahama wants to change an ‘inadvertent’ error in one of his reliefs in which he refereed to the EC instead of President Akufo-Addo.
Although lawyers for President Akufo-Addo and the EC opposed the motion for amendment, a seven-member panel of the apex court, presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, held that the amendment does not affect the substance of the petition, and therefore was granted.