ELECTIONS BOX

The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Jean Mensa, in her election petition witness statement, has maintained that President Akufo-Addo is the legitimate winner of the 2020 elections.     She asserted that the commission did not pad President Akufo-Addo’s votes as alleged by the petitioner in the case, John Mahama. In …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has filed an affidavit in opposition to a review application by John Dramani Mahama, the Petitioner in the ongoing election 2020 petition at the Supreme Court, seeking to reverse a decision of the apex court that dismissed his earlier application for interrogatories.     …

The petitioner in the ongoing Election 2020 petition at the Supreme Court, John Dramani Mahama, has filed an application at the court seeking to stop the hearing of the petition he filed himself 22 days ago on 30 December 2020. The motion of notice for stay of proceedings was filed …

  Former Information minster and also one of the spokespersons for the President of Ghana in the 2020 election petition ,Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said that Jhon Dramani Mahama legal team seeks to delay the court process by creating a media display. According to Kojo Oppong in an interview with …

  The Supreme Court has suspended the hearing of the Election Petition until  Tuesday, January 26 after a hearing on Wednesday, January 20. The adjournment comes after the president of the seven (7) panel of judges, Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah spelt out orders for parties in the case to …

The Supreme Court says the petitioner’s lawyers should file their witness statements by Thursday, but Tsatsu Tsikata wants more time The Supreme Court has adjourned the 2020 election petition to Tuesday 26 January 2021 after a mini showdown in court between Tsatsu Tsikata, lawyer for the petitioner, and the judges on the panel, …

  The presidential candidate of the NDC, former President John Mahama is challenging the validity of the 7 December presidential election   The counsel for the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, Tsatsu Tsikata clashed with a Supreme Court judge on Tuesday (19 January 2021) during …

At the first hearing, the apex court ruled that John Mahama must correct errors in his petition for the case to take off today Supreme Court’s hearing of former President John Dramani Mahama’s Election Petition, challenging the validity of the winner of 7 December presidential election enters day two, with …

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has a clear lead in the presidential race following Thursday’s vote, official preliminary results show. But his main challenger, pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, said that tally was the result of the worst rigging in Ugandan electoral history. Election monitors say confidence in the count has been …

  The former National Democratic Congress (NDC)  member of Parliament for Nadowli Kaleo and former Majority Leader, Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin has been elected the Speaker of Parliament for the eighth Parliament of the fourth Republic.   Bagbin who was the Second deputy speaker of Parliament was selected in Parliament …