The Supreme Court today, Thursday May 2 resumes hearing of the election petition after a day�s break yesterday, May Day which was marked as a statutory public holiday.
The Court could have, hitherto, chosen to sit on that holiday per certain provisions in Constitutional Instrument C.I 74 which provided legal backing for the 2012 elections.
However, a ruling by the same Court on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 declared as unconstitutional, sittings on statutory public holidays.
The General Secretary for the People�s National Convention, PNC, Mr. Bernard Mornah was the plaintiff in that case, which ruling, has a bearing on the ongoing election petition.
Counsel for the governing National Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Tsatsu Tsikata is expected to continue his cross examination of the key witness, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
The petitioners, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, together with his running Mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the party�s National Chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, is challenging the validity of the 2012 presidential polls.
They claim there were widespread irregularities as well as strategically planned rigging, through the collusion of the first respondent, President John Mahama and the second respondent, the Electoral Commission.
They therefore are praying the Supreme Court to annul results in 11,138 polling stations where they claim massive and strategic rigging occurred.
Dr Bawumia has been under cross-examination for the past week after he was led in evidence by his lead Counsel, Philip Addison.
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