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General news for Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-01-20
Attorney Martin Kpebu
A private lawyer, Martin Kpebu, has said that the current electoral petition before the Supreme Court has political dimensions apart from legal ones.
Speaking on the Joy News PM Express program, Kpebu advanced that the opposition Democratic National Congress, NDC, whose standard bearer is the petitioner in the case, is selling the case of a stolen verdict.
“Despite the fact that the request (for interrogations) was rejected, this case is not purely legal, it is also very political. What I see at stake here, aside from the legal aspect, is that NDC is seriously selling a stolen verdict case. Selling seriously …
“So what is happening is that, every day that we get up and talk about this case, what is in the background (is) that the EC made some mistakes, and then, for the layman, that someone benefited”, said. presented.
As of today, after the third day of hearing; The petitioners have expressed their dissatisfaction with a series of judgments and instructions on case management issued by the court. The January 26 hearing on the substantive issues of the petition has been scheduled.
Lawyers for the second defendant say they are happy with the court’s instructions and have reiterated that the petitioners are deliberately working to slow the pace of the hearing.
The second defendant is President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The first is the Electoral Commission. The EC declaration of Akufo-Addo as president is being contested by Mahama, who ranked second in the December 2020 polls.
