Trying Times Ahead for Afari-Gyan

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Trying Times Ahead for Afari-Gyan

Re: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey(of the New Patriotic Party [NPP] v. John Dramani Mahama; Electoral Commission of Ghana; and the National Democratic Congress (NDC)

The OmanbaPa Research Group

Keywords: electoral commission, electoral irregularities, voting without biometric verification, pink-sheets, over-voting, ghost polling stations, faked foreign voters’ list, statutory violations, Supreme Court, annulment of results

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Both the Article 64 of the 1992 [Fourth] Republican Constitution of Ghana and the Supreme Court (Amendment) Rules, 2012 (C.I. 74), particularly Section 68, provide that after a period of twenty one (21) days after the declaration of election result, a citizen of Ghana can challenge in the Supreme Court the validity of the result so declared or being contested, if he or she so desires, by filing a petition in the Registry of the Supreme Court' to that effect... Accordingly, on 28th day of December 2012, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, of the NPP, availed themselves challenging the 9th December 2012 declaration of John Dramani Mahama, as president-elect. Many are those who argue that legally, the presidential wields some sort of immunity and therefore, the President John Dramani Mahama cannot be cited in any legal proceeding while he is in office, so the NPP’s petition against the President [first respondent] is an error in law?