ELECTIONS BOX

Lead Counsel for the petitioner in the ongoing presidential election petition hearing, Mr Tsatsu Tsikata hastold the court that the chair of the 1st Respondent, Jean Mensa cannot skip cross-examination. Mr Tsatsu argued that by filing a witness statement, the 1st Respondent has opened her up for cross examination.   …

The 2020 Presidential Election Petition will see the appearance of no further witness if the Supreme Court rules in favour of the 1st and 2nd Respondents submission of no case to answer. That will mean the First Respondent and Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Adukwei Mensah, together with …

Third witness of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo has told the Supreme Court that he was offered tea while waiting for the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa at the EC’s secretariat during the elections last year. During cross examination on Monday …

The third witness for John Mahama, the petitioner in the ongoing election petition case,Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, will tomorrow, Monday, February 8, 2021, proceed with his testimony when the Supreme Court resumes hearing. Mr. Mettle-Nunoo may join the hearing via online video conferencing as was done last Friday because Mahama’s counsel …

  Ghana has again witnessed a petition to the Supreme Court (SC) concerning the outcome of a Presidential Election. Nevertheless, there are a number of incidences that has occurred with this petition that leaves myself and a lot of citizens befuddled as to what exactly is going on. Which principle …

The lead counsel for John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 election petition, Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata, during the hearing on Friday, February 5, 2021, reserved a word of praise for the representative of the first respondent, Peter Mac Manu, for helping him bring some clarity to an issue. Dr Kpessa-Whyte had, …

  Tarkwa-Nsuaem Member of Parliament (MP), George Mireku Duker says the Supreme Court must charge the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) with contempt of court. According to Hon. Mireku Duker, the NDC, their petitioner and lawyers are all wasting the time of the court and Ghanaians.   The Supreme Court …

Spokesperson for lawyers of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing has said the decision by the Supreme Court to strike out only five-paragraph out of the 23 that the respondents were asking the court to remove from Rojo Mettle the paragraphs that have been struck out are 4, …

The Supreme Court has by a unanimous decision struck out paragraphs 4, 5, 6, 7 and 18 of Rojo Mettle-Nunoo’s witness statement. It was the ruling of the court that these paragraphs had no foundation to the pleadings of the petition. Lead counsels for the 1st and 2nd respondents raised …

A video of the New Patriotic Party’s Campaign Chairman for the 2020 general elections, Peter MacManu, which has resurfaced, seems to suggest some iota of truth in claims made by witnesses for the petitioner, in the ongoing election petition hearing at the Supreme Court. One of the contentious portions of …