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The President of the Electoral Commission, Ms. Jean Mensa has a constitutional duty to report to the Ghanaian people on how she arrived at her declaration of victory for President Nana Akufo-Addo in the elections of December 7, 2020, a former prosecutor Deputy General Dr Dominic Ayine said.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 after the Supreme Court hearing of the ongoing election petition in which former President John Mahama challenges the presidential results declared by Ms Mensa on December 9, 2020, Dr Ayine, who is part of Mr Mahama’s legal record, ”said:“ The reason we insist that she be allowed to testify is simply because this is not a debt collection case ” .
“We are not dealing here with a private matter; the private interest of private litigants. We are dealing here with the public interest, here we are dealing with the declaration of results that reflect or are purported to have reflected the sovereign will of the people of this country.
“We are dealing here with Article 1 of the Constitution, which says that the sovereignty of Ghana resides with the Ghanaian people in whose name and for whose benefit the powers of government are to be exercised,” he noted.
“And, then,” he added: “For her [Jean Mensa] for having declared that the sovereign will of this country, expressed on December 7, 2020, to elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President of the Republic of Ghana, it has the constitutional duty to account to the people of this country for how she came to this conclusion and that the constitutional obligation means that she cannot, under any circumstances, be permitted to not report to the public through cross-examination, as cross-examination is the one of the mechanisms authorized by law to demand the responsibility of litigants and it is not an ordinary litigant; he is a constitutional official and our case is therefore very different from some of the English cases which were cited ”.
The court will rule on Thursday February 11, 2021 on whether or not Ms. Mensa and Mr. Mac Manu should go up the platform.
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