Tsatsu Tsikata says the ruling of the Supreme Court of Ghana on March 4, 2021, was very strange, especially the aspects that described the testimony of Dr Michael Kpessa-Whyte and Robert Joseph [Rojo] Mettle-Nunoo as “fanciful tales”.
According to him, the witnesses of John Dramani Mahama gave the court a compelling and truthful account of what transpired in the “Strong room” of the Electoral Commission.
Speaking to KSM on Friday, March 12, Tsatsu Tsikata explained, “The fact that the decision went against us, is part of the reality of court proceedings. In my own estimation, there are a number of aspects of the decision that are somewhat strange.”
“The court tried to set aside the evidence of the two of the witnesses that were presented by John Mahama: Dr Michael Kpessa-Whyte and Robert Joseph [Rojo] Mettle-Nunoo. There was a description of that evidence as ‘fanciful tales’ which is quite extraordinary because the witnesses gave a completely truthful, compelling account of the situation in the Electoral Commission premises on the day that the declaration was supposed to be made,” he stated further.
Tsikata noted that “Mr Mettle-Nunoo particularly gave a very vivid account of the interactions that he had with her [Chairperson of EC] and based on that interaction, he and Dr Kpessa-Whyte had to go on assignment; to go and brief their candidate based on what they were told by the Chairperson. By the time they got to the candidate, she was already making a Declaration.
He indicated that the Petitioners case was clear rather, the 1st Respondent failed to act “according to the law she herself was signatory to; the Constitutional Instrument (CI) which requires her to be the person assembling and collating the results from the Regional Collation Centres and in the presence of the candidate’s agents sorting out whatever issues they had before making a Declaration.”
Source: ghanaweb
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