ELECTIONS BOX

Akoto Ampaw, the lead lawyer for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, second respondent in the ongoing election petition case, has asked the Supreme Court to delete portions of the witness statement filed for Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress. According to Akoto Ampaw, about ten paragraphs in Asiedu …

The Supreme Court will today Friday, January 29, 2021, commence the hearing of the 2020 presidential election following the consideration of all pending motions before the court. The Apex court in Thursday’s hearing dismissed the petitioner’s application requesting the court to review its ruling that denied his request to ask …

A member of President Akufo-Addo’s legal team, Frank Davies has taken a swipe at the legal team of President John Mahama in the ongoing Election Petition case. He accused them of being emotional in their arguments praying the Supreme Court to rule in their favour with regard to their application …

A nine-member Supreme Court review panel has dismissed an application by John Mahama in the ongoing election 2020 petition seeking review of the decision of the court that dismissed an initial application asking permission to serve interrogatories (12 questions) on the Electoral Commission (EC). After nearly two hours of arguments from the …

The petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition hearing, John Dramani Mahama, has filed his witness statements. It was filed on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, by his lawyers. The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia and Michael Kpessa-Whyte, a former Executive Director of the National …

Abraham Amaliba, a member of the legal team of the National Democratic Congress has hit back at Frank Davies of the New Patriotic Party who launched a scathing attack on John Mahama’s lawyers for attempting to stifle the process.     In an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb, Abraham Amaliba said …

The Supreme Court has threatened to invoke its powers including throwing out the 2020 election petition by former President John Mahama if the petitioner’s lawyers fail to file their witness statements.   The seven-member panel hearing the election petition has given lawyers of the petitioner (Mahama) by close of Wednesday 27 January 2021 to file their …

IMANI-Africa President, Franklin Cudjoe, has questioned President Akufo-Addo’s decision to appoint Godfred Dame whom he criticized as someone who supports injustices to a group of citizens as his Minister for Justice.     “It is a shame that we have an Attorney-General designate who was NEVER interested in the grave …

The second respondent (President Akufo-Addo) in the Election 2020 petition filed at the Supreme Court by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, says the application by the petitioner (Mahama), seeking to stop proceedings pending the determination of his application for a review of the dismissal of …

The leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) has cautioned its party agents across the country against the Electoral Commission’s alleged intentions of deceiving them to sign “fraudulent” pink sheets for a reward.         According to the NDC, they’d picked intelligence suggesting that some District EC Officials …