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The Supreme Court struck out the contempt charge against the former Deputy Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine.
This was after the member for Bolgatanga Est obeyed court orders to purge himself of his contempt.
Dr Ayine, who is a key member of the petitioner’s legal team in the ongoing 2020 election petition, was taken to Supreme Court justices for the allegation that there was an order from predetermined day to vote against 2020 NDC presidential candidate John Dramani. Mahama.
Dr Ayine, while addressing the media after the panel, in a unanimous decision, rejected a request by Mr Mahama to reopen his case, said he was surprised the judges were trying to erase four of the five questions raised by the petitioner.
“These are all relevant issues under the constitution and laws of Ghana and reducing the petition to one question is rather unfortunate and smacks of a pre-determined agenda to speak out against the petitioner in this matter.
But although he wrote a letter to the Supreme Court to apologize and recant, Chief Justice Anin-Yeboah ordered him to apologize in the same way he used to sacandalize the court before Thursday 25. February 2021.
Delivering the verdict today, Chief Justice Anin Yeboah said Dr Ayine was being fired for adhering to court orders.
Lawyer for the culprit, Frank Dekyem thanked the court for the mercy shown to his client, promising that Dr Ayine “will go and sin no more”.
Meanwhile, present in court to support the former Deputy Attorney General was lead counsel for the 1st defendant at the election petition hearing, Justin Amenuvor.
Explaining his presence, attorney Amenuvor told the court that Dr Ayine was a best friend, a former roommate, and was also the bestman of his marriage.
He thus thanked the court for having struck out the charges against the legislator.
Also present were the petitioner’s lawyers, Tony Lithur, Marietta Brew, Bawa Mogtari, Edudzi Tamakloe, among others.
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