[ 2021-02-17 ]

You have done a great disservice to Ghanaians – Ayine to Justices
Spokesperson for lawyers of the petitioner in the
ongoing election petition hearing, Dr Dominic
Ayine has said the justices of the Supreme Court
of Ghana have done a great disservice to Ghanaians
for dismissing an application filed by the
petitioner to reopen his case.

Speaking to the media after court proceedings on
Tuesday February 16, the former Deputy Attorney
General said “I am surprised that the Supreme
Court itself, having set out five key issues to
be determined, is now reducing the issues to one
which is whether and the extent to which the
evidence that we have led shows that no one got
more than 50% of the votes in accordance with
Article 63 of the Constitution.

We have made abundantly clear in the petition that
there were a number of infractions. We are
contesting even the constitutionality of the
declaration that was made. We are saying that she
violated Article 23 of the constitution because
she is an administrative body

“For the court to say that we were bound by law
to make our evidence available for it to assess
before allowing us to reopen our case is legally
problematic proposition, therefore we disagree
with the court .

“We think that the court by this decision has
not done the people of this country a great
service. In the sense that Ghanaians are
interested in knowing the truth. Our constitution
is very clear that justice emanates from the
people and must be exercised in the name of and
the welfare of the people.

“The justices today have not given us a reason
to believe that they want the people of this
country to know the truth about what happened. “

Source - 3 News

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