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General news for Thursday, January 21, 2021
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-01-21
John Dramani Mahama, standard bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
John Dramani Mahama has submitted an application to the court calling for the suspension of proceedings in the ongoing electoral petition trial.
The petitioner in the 2020 election petition, John Dramani Mahama, is expected to submit witness statements and the accompanying affidavits on his petition in the Supreme Court record today, Thursday, January 21, 2021.
Based on this order, the NDC standard-bearer is trying to shorten the process for the Supreme Court to hear the pending review request for the ruling against the interrogation questions presented in court by the lead attorney, attorney Tsatsu Tsikata.
On January 19, 2020, the court dismissed the motion filed by John Dramani Mahama’s attorneys in the election petition case that sought to require the Election Commissioner to admit the mistakes she made during her election results statement.
The high court unanimously ‘dismissed’ NDC Flagbearer’s application after identifying that the interrogations were irrelevant to the case.
But Mahama’s lawyers believe the questioning will determine how the case will unfold, hence the need for the high court to review the decision they made not to allow the questioning.
It is on this basis that the former president requested a suspension of the proceedings in the ongoing electoral petition, as he does not want to present his witness statement pending his request for review.
John Mahama’s attorney wants the court to determine the review decision before proceeding with the election petition hearing because “they believe that the discovery process, such as interrogations, is the normal pre-trial process to limit the scope of a trial and the request for review seek to recognize the right to resort to them “
The lawyers add that “in this particular case, the use of the interrogation mechanism will ensure a faster trial.”
“And the denial of our authorization to serve interrogations is a serious judicial error that we hope to have corrected in the review.” The states of the application.
Below is the application
