Deputy Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hon Alhaji Baba Jamal has indicated that the Supreme Court may consider the need to extend the 42 days earmarked for the adjudication of the 2020 election petition.
According to him, the apex court seeking to get to the bottom of the 2020 election petition may not stick to the 42 days if the truth cannot be established by that given period.
Hon. Baba Jamal based his argument on the fact that the NDC s presidential candidate in the 2020 election, former President John Dramani Mahama, has filed two legal processes at the Supreme Court for certain answers from the Electoral Commission (EC) with regard to his presidential election petition.
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A member of the legal team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Baba Jamal, has given accounts how the Supreme Court (SC) in 2012/13 election petition granted an interlocutory application to a petitioner then-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who lost an election in 2012.
“In 2013, the court granted to Nana Addo the opportunity for interrogatories. The court explained that once it can help with the quickening of the case, they will allow it. At that time the justices were nine. This time the justices are seven but they still disagreed with us”, Baba Jamal who is a spokesperson for the John Mahama legal team in the ongoing election petition recollected.
A member of the legal team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Baba Jamal, has stated that his party’s petition to the Supreme Court about the 2020 Presidential Election declaration by the Electoral Commission has to do with satisfying the constitutional position which makes someone a legitimate President.
According to him, the opposition NDC has every reason to believe that Nana Akufo-Addo did not win the 2020 Presidential Election as declared by Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
Speaking on
Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, the former Member of Parliament for Akwatia Constituency insisted that the Electoral Commission has given conflicting figures, making it difficult for the NDC to accept that Presidential result as per their calculation, the figures provided by the EC does not make Nana Akufo-Addo the President of Ghana.
Bono East NDC activist not found after alleged arrest by National Security LISTEN 2
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bono East Region says the whereabouts of Adbul-Latif Seidu Harrison, an NDC activist in Kintampo, is still unknown, days after his alleged arrest by National Security Operatives.
Mr. Seidu Harrison was arrested on Friday for threatening the lives of families of President Akuf-Addo and the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa on social media.
“They [National Security] took him to Tamale. We made a follow up to Tamale and they said they have transported him to Accra,” the Bono East Regional Secretary for the NDC, Mohammed Shamsudeen Ali said to Citi News.
Investigate Kennedy Agyapong on claims to burn Mahama, others - NDC The Legal Team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has written to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to demand an investigation into threats on the life and property of some of its members by Kennedy Agyapong.
Kennedy Agyapong is on record to have threatened the lives and properties of John Dramani Mahama, Baba Jamal, Akamba, Asiedu Nketia and Gbevlo Lartey. According to the Assin Central Member of Parliament, they are behind the numerous fire outbreaks in some markets across the country and if any market is razed down by the fire, he will order for their properties to be burnt adding that their bodies will also be burnt.