The apex court of the land, the Supreme Court has noted that it is ready to deal with any presidential petition that may arise after the 2020 elections within 42 days.
According to Justice Jones Dotse, Chairperson of the Election Manual Review Committee, only contestants of the polls can challenge the results of the presidential election.
This is to prevent the 2012 incident where the petition dragged for about 8 months.
“There’s a nice write-up on the manual which indicates that the Supreme Court is proposing that should there be any dispute, it will not go beyond 42 days,” he noted.
“And there are major significant changes in the law in the sense that now if you are interested in questioning or initiating a presidential election dispute, you must have been a candidate in that election and you can only sue the one who has been declared as the winner by the EC and the EC, that’s all,” he added.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
