The Electoral Commission through its lawyers has urged the High Court in Accra to make appropriate orders that will enable the Commission to complete the collation process in the various collation centers.
While advancing arguments for the grant of an application for Mandamus in respect of Tema Central Constituency, lawyers of the EC led by Justin Amenuvor said, the orders must curtail dangerous precedent.
“If this court does not make the appropriate orders for the EC to go and finish its work in the presence of the very limited number of persons outlined in the Constitutional Instrument (C.I 127) a dangerous precedent for our democracy will be set whereby all manner of thugs, hoodlums, will evade constituency collation centers and even without the appropriate forms prescribed in the C.I. for the election raise the hand of somebody holding an A4 sheet and saying that it is done,” Lawyer Justin Amenuvor said.
Before his submissions, lawyers for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Gary Nimako made a similar submission while moving the application for mandamus to compel the EV to collate and declare the results in the Tema Central Constituency.
Counsel has argued that the processes could not be completed due to alleged intimidation which led to an improper declaration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ebi Bright as the winner.
He alleged that, the person who performed that improper declaration was not the returning officer of the EC.
Gary Nimako Marfo pointed out to the High Court presided over by Justice Forson Baah Agyepong to a video which was played in open court.
It was his submission that, the person seen holding an A4 sheet in the video on the day of the said purported declaration was one Mr John Nunoo and not the EC’s returning officer, Mr Kwesi Brobbey.
To this point, he said their application is only asking the court to compel the EC to complete the collation process and declare the winner of the election for that constituency.
