Anyenini LegalLight: Fast track presidential election suits
Anyenini LegalLight: Fast track presidential election suits Resolving election disputes speedily helps a great deal to douse tensions associated with disputed elections. There is good reason for this issue to engage our minds because the presidential election petition in 2013 took eight long months to resolve. An otherwise simple family case took forty years to resolve, and Chief Justice Georgina Wood rightly described that as “a parody of justice”. The NPP’s George Isaac Amoh challenged the validity of the 1996 parliamentary elections in the Ayawaso West-Wuogon constituency but by the ...