A Special aide to former President John Dramani Mahama who is also the petitioner of the 2020 Presidential Election petition, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe says it has become evident that nothing will happen to the Electoral Commission Chairperson having wrongly returned a Presidential Election results.
He added that the action of the Supreme Court not to allow the subpoena of the Chairperson of the 1st Respondent for questioning has given room for people to conclude that the Chairperson can decide not to testify after making mistakes in her declaration.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe asserted that Mrs Jean Mensa should have voluntarily put herself up for questioning as her predecessor, Dr Afari Gyan did in the 2012 election petition.
He added that Dr Afari Gyan mounted the witness box to testify even when the petitioner was seeking the annulment of Ghanaians votes on the grounds that some pink sheets had the same serial numbers.
“Dr Afari Gyan came out voluntarily and testified to his conscience and the oath he took when he assumed office as the Chairperson for the Electoral Commission (EC). He mounted the witness box and he justified the declaration he gave in the 2012 general election,” he stressed.
He, however, expressed confidence that the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment on March 4, 2021, over the petition will advance the democratic experiment in the country.
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Are u sure this guy is a lawyer? Which law school did he attend? No wonder NDC wasted everybody's time. He wanted Jean to mount the witness box to make his case easier for him. Only a lazy lawyer will talk like this. Ndc went on a fishing expedition to see if they could catch something. They knew that didn't have a case yet they subjected us all to this whimsical comedy drama.
You're not serious.
AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES LAWYERS Will you advise your client to do the same..?
Is this one too a lawyer? Talking like a jss person.
Like seriously? To voluntarily go and mount the witness box? Is that happens in the law courts? You mount to defend yourself or the accused/respondent. If Afari Djan had not mounted the witness box, the defendant was going lose.
As a lawyer you are dealing with emotions. Check your facts well on EC in 2012 and stop this JSS thoughts.
Mr Tamakloe and lawyers like his kind surprise me. In the 2013 case, Dr Bawumia made very sound arguments with facts and figures and the EC had no choice than to mount the box to counter. Failure to do that would have been to the favour of the petitioner then; and the declared results would most probably have been overturned by the SC. In the current case, the EC sees no sound arguments with facts and figures laid by the petitioner and sees no need to mount the box to rebut. If lawyer Tamakloe and his party believe they had a good case and have laid convincing evidence for all Ghanaians to see, they should rather be happy about the EC's decision not to mount the box. This joke must stop
What kind of law is this? All these people call themselves lawyers. No wonder Mahama has lost his case with this calibre of lawyer behind his petition.
NSEM HUUUNU KWA ARA KWA
is this what you were thought as a lawyer? for an opposing factions in a court dispute to dance to the tunes of the other opponent?