The Supreme
Court is set to deal with any election petition that will arise out of the 2020
elections in 42 days maximum.
Justice Jones
Dotse, the Chairperson of the Election Manual Review Committee, any suit
challenging a presidential election will only be allowed from contestants in
the election and only against the winner and the Electoral Commission.
“There’s a
nice write-up on the manual which indicates that the Supreme Court is proposing
that should there be any dispute, it will not go beyond 42 days,” he stated.
This is to
prevent the election petition of 2012 election which dragged for 8 months.
A lot of
governance expert said it affected the country as the government of the day was
too cautious in taking certain decisions.
The business
community was also affected as a lot of investors wanted to be sure the
direction the country was going before investing in the country.
Speaking at
the launch of the 4th Edition of the Manual on Election Adjudication, Justice
Jones Dotse disclosed that processes on who can sue and join the suit has been
spelt out.
“And there are major significant changes in the law in the
sense that now if you are interested in questioning or initiating a
presidential election dispute, you must have been a candidate in that election
and you can only sue the one who has been declared as the winner by the EC and
the EC, that’s all. ” he added.
More soon…
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