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The legal team for the election petitioners has accused the respondents in the case of creating their own case during the hearing of the election petition case before the Supreme Court. �It is not for him [Tsatsu Tsikata] to make a case riding on the back of our case or trying to get through the back door on our case�so if he has other things he wants to look at, probably, he can wait for his witness, put his witness in the box and do that through his witness,� said a member of the petitioner�s legal team, Yaw Buaben Asamoah. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Wednesday, Mr. Asamoah lamented that �so far as Tsatsu is on his feet, this case is heading nowhere fast� and further described Mr. Tsikata�s cross examination on Wednesday as �the saddest day before the Supreme Court.� According to him, the NDC�s Counsel was �disorganized, he kept arguing not only with the second petitioner�s witness in the box but also with the Supreme Court. This is a court that gives you practice direction�and he refuses to obey the court to the point that Mr. Addison had to ask whether he was defying the court.� The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia could not be cross examined on pink sheets outside the over 11,000 pink sheets tended in as evidence by the petitioners. This followed an introduction of pink sheets from the strong hold of the petitioners by Mr. Tsikata in a bid to prove that over voting also occurred outside the evidence the petitioners have presented to the court. However, Mr. Asamoah pointed out that Mr. Tsikata disobeyed the ruling by doing exactly opposite what the court ordered. �Mr. Tsikata took a ruling yesterday, came back to court today and proceeded to do exactly what ruling didn�t allow him to do and he persisted in doing it to the point where he court had to stop him and immediately the court stopped him, he had run out of ideas.� But a member of the NDC legal team, Victor Adawudu stated that the lead Counsel did not defy the ruling of the court as there was misinterpretation of the ruling. ��we did not understand it that way so if they say we were defying the court order; that is not true.�