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Election Petition: It’s Too Late For Mahama To Discontinue Case – Lawyer Ampaw
Private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has said that calls for the petitioner, John Dramani Mahama to withdraw his case in the ongoing election petition cannot be heeded to because it is too late.
This comes after some persons in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) urged Mr Mahama to withdraw his case with Member of Parliament for the South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Este Kwami Dafeamekpor suggesting that the way Justices at the Supreme Court keep throwing out motions filed by the Counsels for the Petitioner, it clearly shows that the opposition party is endangered and that “justice emanates from the people” as espoused in the Constitution no longer holds.
Reacting to this, Lawyer Ampaw told Ghanaweb: “When you go to the battlefield and you realize that the law is not on your side, the evidence does not favor you, what do you do? You can throw in the towel but where we’ve gotten to, if you throw in the towel, the court will go ahead because you can’t just discontinue. You must state reasons for which you want to discontinue and the court can refuse because where we’ve gotten to, they are about to pass judgment and so what are you running away from?”
“Even if they go to file to discontinue, we have passed that stage. You have led evidence, you have closed your case, the respondents have also interrogated you and now, there is time for addresses and then judgment. So, it’s too late in the day for you to say that you are withdrawing,” he stated.
