[ 2021-02-17 ]

Ayine’s comments on SC ruling unbelievable -Legal Practitioner
Private legal Justice Abdulai has bemoaned the
comments of the spokesperson for the petitioner in
the ongoing election petition hearing at the
Supreme Court Dr. Dominic Ayine, describing it as
unpalatable and undesirable to the court.


He said this in an interview with Johnnie Hughes
on the New Day show on TV3, Wednesday February
17.



Mr. Abdulai hinted that the press briefings by the
spokespersons of the parties to the case, that is
the petitioner and the second respondent is
laudable, in trying to explain what goes on in
court in layman’s language for the ordinary
populace to understand but went on to criticize
the attacks leveled against the justices by Dr.
Ayine on Tuesday, February 16.

“The press conferences, they are very good, to
the extent that they seek to educate the mass of
supporter of these political parties, to the
extent that they break down the issues for the
ordinary man to understand, it is very good. What
unfortunately has become the negative aspect of
this, which I condemn, has been the consistent
attacks on each other and sadly both sides have
quite good lawyers doing these campaigns and
insulting each other, sometimes in raw languages,
in fact, honestly, I didn’t care about that, if
you want to insult yourselves on air so be it but
the attacks on the supreme court is what has
become worrying” he said.

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He emphasized that “being lawyers and the
petitioner’s side is made of former Attorney
Generals, then the Akuffo-Addo side is made up of
former ministers of state and other fine lawyers
that I know on a personal note and they take this
microphones and the only thing you hear from their
mouths are consistent insults when they know how
to address their concerns, there are proper
mechanisms put in place by law and procedure. If
you disagree with the decision of a court,
there’s a procedure to address that, if it
doesn’t go in your favor after exhausting all
the processes and realms available, so be it, it
is not supposed to be a must-win affair, somebody
must lose”.

“Court is not a football match where there’s a
draw, it never draws, regardless of what happens
somebody must lose and someone must win but at the
end of the day, I think the parties are being
over-emotional and politically too sensitive in
this matter and this is taking away their level of
maturity from handling this matter the way it
ought to be and for me that is the saddest thing.
The worst part of it is the comments of yesterday
by Dr. Ayine, this is a former Deputy Attorney
General for Christ’s sake, saying the kind of
things he said about the supreme court, this is a
person others look up to, this is a nice man, very
intelligent, as far as I know, and the kind of
comments he made was so unpalatable, so
undesirable, in fact, so unlike him that I just
couldn’t believe he was saying some of these
things”.



“People were calling for contempt and other
things but I think that is too much, considering
the kind of person he is, it may not be fair but
the bottom line remains that these people know
better, they ought to know better if they don’t
know already, that we are all helping to build a
sustainable democracy, so if you think there’s
pressure from your supporters, there’s a better
way of addressing them without getting their hopes
unreasonably high” he charged on the New Day.

Source - 3 News

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