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There was no results collation in Techiman South – Samson Ayenini confirms According to the lawyer, this is violation of a requirement by Regulation 43 of C.I. 127. The EC has stated that the NPP’s candidate Martin Adjei Mensah-Korsah won with 49,682 votes representing 50.2 percent of the total valid vote cast, whilst the NDC’s candidate Christopher Beyere Baasongti had 49,205 votes representing 49.8 percent of the total valid votes cast. On this basis, the NPP’s candidate was declared the MP-elect for Techiman South. The opposition NDC, on the other hand, has served notice it wil...

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 ...

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 ...