Globaltipsgh.com can confirm that the Supreme Court per a unanimous decision delivered Thursday
has affirmed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a validly elected President of
Ghana.
In more detail,
the Supreme Court of Ghana has upheld the re-election of Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo as president of Ghana.
This therefore
means that he was validly elected during the December 7, 2020, presidential
elections.
The verdict was
read out today by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah who led the seven-member
panel that has been sitting on the 2020 Election Petition since the hearing
began on January 14, 2021.
“The petitioner has not provided any evidence to rebut the
evidence created by the presumption CI135, for which his action must fail.
“We therefore have no reason to order a re-run as
pleaded by the petitioner. We accordingly dismisses the petition as having no
merit,” the CJ said in conclusion to over the two-hour judgement. The court
basically held that the petitioner failed to conclusively prove any of the
issues that it had filed for determination.
The issued for determination were as follows:
1.
Whether or not
the petition discloses any reasonable cause of action
2.
Whether or not
based on the data contained in the declaration of the 1st Respondent (EC), no
candidate obtained more than 50% of the valid votes cast as required by Article
63 (3) of the 1992 constitution
3.
Whether or not
the 2nd Respondent still met article 63 (3) of the 1992 constitution threshold
by the exclusion or inclusion of the Techiman South constituency Presidential
Election Results of 2020
4.
Whether or not
the declaration by the 1st Respondent dated the 9th of December was in
violation of Article 63 (3) of the 1992 constitution
5. Whether or not the alleged vote padding and other
errors complained of by the petitioner affected the outcome of the Presidential
Election results of 2020.
The Petition was lodged at the
apex court by former president John Dramani Mahama, who was flagbearer of the
opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC. Mahama was challenging the EC’s
December 9 declaration of Akufo-Addo as president-elect.
Mahama dragged two parties to the
top court. They were: the Electoral Commission and President Akufo-Addo as
first and second respondents respectively.
Watch a LIVE video of the judgment below
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