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John Mahama’s lead attorney in the election petition case, Tsatsu Tsikata, has filed two new petitions in the Supreme Court following the dismissal of a license seeking to reopen the case.
The petitioner, John Mahama, wanted the request granted so that the president of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, could be summoned to testify in the ongoing electoral petition.
But upon reading the court’s ruling, on Tuesday, February 16, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, said that the petitioner’s legal team has not indicated how the evidence they intend to request from the President of the EC will help determine the case. .
Once again, the president of the Supreme Court explained that the president of the EC is not on trial, so he cannot be asked to vindicate himself, adding that the success of the petitioner’s case depends on his own evidence.
But objecting to the ruling of the 7-member panel of judges made up of the Chief Justice Anin-Yeboah; Justices Yaw Appau, Marful Sau, Professor Ashie Kotei, Mariama Owusu, Nene Amegatcher and Gertrude Tokonor, attorney Tsikata, said the new applications were being filed while the Chief Justice was reading the ruling on the reopening of the case.
These new motions, he said, included a review of the court’s February 11 ruling that the EC president cannot be compelled to set up the witness stand and a suspension of proceedings pending the hearing of the request for revision.
Acknowledging the filing, Chief Justice Anin Yeboah said the court will move the motions for the two applications filed by the petitioners after the registrar has given a date.
Subsequently, he postponed the hearing until Wednesday, February 17, 2021.
Mahama is in the supreme court seeking an order for the 2020 presidential election to be replayed between him and President Nana Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party candidate.
He alleges issues of irregularities and ballot filling while maintaining that no candidate obtained more than 50% of the votes to be declared the winner.
