The Supreme Court of Ghana is expected to sit on Thursday, 14th January 2021 to hear a preliminary objection raised by counsels for 1st and 2nd respondents; Electoral Commission and President Akufo-Addo respectively.
In separate answers to the petition filed at the Supreme Court Registry Saturday, Jan 9, 2021, the two respondents described the petition as one that lacks merit, incompetent and does not raise any reasonable cause of action.
The two, apart from attacking the substance of the petition, have also raised a preliminary legal objection, arguing that the petition does not even meet the requirement of Article 64(1) of the 1992 Constitution.
It is the case of the two that the petition does not allege infraction in any of the election conducted at the 38,622 polling stations and 311 special voting centres.
Based on these, the respondents are praying the Apex Court to throw out the petition.
The Electoral Commission in its response to the petition have argued that it was “misconceived and untenable” for Former President Mahama in the petition, to rely on the error made by the Chairperson of the EC on December 9, 2020 , when she inadvertently mentioned the total number of votes cast as the total valid votes.
According to the EC, “The full results of the December 7 presidential election was known to the petitioner and that the claims in the petition are contrived, have no legal basis and ought to be dismissed.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
