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TAG Series Panellists: Supreme Court’s verdict on election petition fair

Legal professionals at Asaase Radio's TAG Series concurred that the apex court did justice to the election 2020 petition

Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne March 10, 2021

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Panellists at Asaase Radio’s Talk Act Grow (TAG) Series have concluded that the Supreme Court was fair in its judgement on the 2020 election petition.

The theme for the maiden edition of the TAG series was “Unpacking the 2020 presidential election petition judgment.”

The panellists included Dr Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, head of Law Centres at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Dennis Adjei Dwomoh, managing partner of Law Plus (Attorneys-at-Law), Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, a private legal practitioner and Fatimatu Abubakar, deputy communications director at the Office of the President

According to the panellists, the petitioner in the case refused to produce evidence to support his case in court.

“I agree with the judgement of the court. The petitioner failed woefully to prove the allegations that were in the petition. What surprised me was the fact that when they failed to get the first respondent’s chairperson into the box, they resorted to conversations about accountability,” Abubakar said.

She said, “I think it was a let down on the part of the petitioner not to even as at now show their sympathizers and supporters exactly what they got from the strongroom or their independent collation centre to say this are the figures that they got…”

Abubakar added, “I think the process was fair. The Supreme Court was magnanimous”

Dr Agyeman-Budu said, “on the specific issue of whether it was the right decision that arrived at by the court, on the basis of the evidence that was before it, there was only going to be one conclusion that the court was going to arrive at….once the petitioner admitted that he had the pink but was not going to introduce them even though the whole case is premised on data contained in the declaration of the election by the petitioner when he knows clearly that the only way to challenge that is to introduce what you have then there was going to be only one outcome one way or the other…”

On his part, Adjei Dwomoh said, “…These are comments that politicians will make but let’s put the politicians aside. Let’s look at the evidence at the court and whoever looked at the evidence from an objective point of view will be very hard to disagree with the court.”

The TAG series is part of programmes being rolled out by Asaase Radio to contribute to insightful conversations that will stimulate action for the socio-economic development of the country.