Tag Archives: ELECTION

Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Minister-designate for Parliamentary Affairs, has vehemently disagreed with the practice of organising primaries to elect parliamentary candidates every four years. The practice, he said, often resulted in high attrition rate of experienced Members of Parliament, adversely affecting the work of the legislature. Mr Mensah-Bonsu, also a Member of Parliament for Suame, …

A private legal practitioner, Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo has admonished petitioner and former president John Dramani Mahama to drop his case against December 2020 presidential elections if he fails to get the Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson to mount the witness stand. Supreme Court Judges hearing the December election petition on Thursday, February …

Robert Joseph (Rojo) Mettle-Nunoo, will today, Monday, February 8, be in the witness box as the Principal Witness 3 for Petitioner John Dramani Mahama, in the ongoing election petition at the Supreme Court. Due to his ill health, Rojo Mettle-Nunoo will be cross-examined via online video conference. The cross-examination was …

A private legal practitioner, Lawyer Tachie Antiedu says it was not surprising that the Supreme Court by a unanimous decision dismissed the application by lawyers for petition John Dramani Mahama to inspect original documents in the custody of the Electoral Commission (EC). He explained that it is not in the rules of procedure used …

The Supreme Court has advised a member of President Akufo-Addo’s legal team, in the ongoing election petition case, Frank Davies to stay off Press conferences after court proceedings. According to the apex court, the move offends the principles of the bar, where a Lawyer actively engaged in the case in …

The apex court is expected to resume hearing the 2020 Election Petition case today, February 1, 2021. The cross-examination of the Petitioner’s chief witness, NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia will continue today. The last sitting saw the counsel of the 1st Respondent question Mr Asiedu Nketia on specific matters. Although Mr Asiedu Nketiah declined …

The Apex Court is expected to commence the substantive hearing of the 2020 election petition today, January 28, 2020. The court was supposed to sit on the substantive case on January 26 but former president John Dramani Mahama had not filed his witness statements though they were due on January 21. Mr. …

The Supreme Court will today, January 26, 2021, hear the John Mahama election petition. Lawyers of former president John Mahama have filed a motion seeking leave to file “an additional ground of review” to the review application on the interrogatories. Mr Mahama and his lawyers per the motion for leave …

Documents have been filed on behalf of President Akufo-Addo indicating his objection to a request by the NDC’s John Dramani Mahama to the Supreme Court to put the election petition hearing on hold. Mr. Mahama through his lawyers is demanding that hearings are halted until the Supreme Court deals with …

New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has flayed former president John Mahama for employing “delay tactics” in the 2020 election petition hearing. Mahama has, through his legal team, filed for stay of proceedings of the Election Petition at the Supreme Court. The NDC flagbearer in the 2020 polls wants the …