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2020 Election Petition Likely To Go Beyond 42-Day Period – Martin Kpebu
Lawyer Martin Kpebu has suggested that the ongoing election petition at the Supreme court is likely is to stretch beyond the stipulated 42-days timeline.
According to him, the extension of resolving all post-election concerns may be as a result of the limited time available to the Supreme Court.
“…we don’t have much time left and frankly speaking, by now, the trial should have started because from day 15, we should have started, so you see that we have lost some time,” the private legal practitioner said in a Joy News report monitored by GhanaWeb.
He observed that “the judges have 21 days to retain their verdict [but] now that we are on day 20, the days for the trial are over, so inevitably, the judges will give part of their time to the parties to conduct their actual hearing”.
He continued: “If at the trial it turns out that a very critical issue of evidence comes out so much that the trial has to go a bit outside the 42 days, that should not cause an alarm.”
