The 2020 Elections petition
which was expected to last for a minimum of forty two working days seems to be
an impossibility looking at how things are gradually churning out.
Unlike the 2012 election petition which was based on more than 5
petitions, this current petition is hinged only in two petitions namely; votes
padding and significant errors as committed by the first respondent, the Electoral Commission chair,
Madam Jean Mensah.
As it was
expected, the first and second respondents, the EC and
President Akufo Addo were supposed to present witnesses as well as
witness statements just as the petitioner did where he presented three
different witnesses.
But the first
respondent has turned down that particular suggestion by the petitioner to be
interrogated in the witness box at the supreme court by their lawyers which the
council of the petitioner is still insisting she be in the witness box.
In response to this, a private legal practitioner by the name
lawyer Baffour
Awuah has openly come out to speak against why the EC chair
should be put to the witness box to be interrogated by the lawyers of the
petitioner.
Speaking today on United Television’s “Critical Issues”
hosted by Afia Pokuaa, the lawyer asserted that he sees no importance on why
the petitioner’s are pushing for interrogatories on the supreme court.
According to the private legal practitioner, the council of the petitioner led
by lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata have in their possession all the duplicate of the pink
sheets as well as the other documents that was used by the EC chair in
declaring the results after which it was published on their website for public
consumption.
“In my opinion, I think lawyer Tsatsu after realising they
have no tangible case against the EC, just want to force out some errors from
the EC chair’s own mouth in the witness box. Tsatsu is just trying to be
smart”, he concluded.
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