Watch Live Telecast: Day 42 of Supreme Court's hearing of election petition
Respondents in the ongoing presidential election petition have opposed calls by the petitioners to the Supreme Court to refer issues on 1,545 pink sheets to international audit firm, KPMG, for further consideration. The court has given all parties 10 minutes to address to it on the matter for it to make a determination.
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After the determination, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan would mount the witness box for cross examination by lead counsel for the petitioners, Mr Philip Addison to continue.
On Monday, Dr Afari-Gyan was confronted with a “weird” pink sheet from the DA Primary Polling Station at Ampemkro in the Ashanti Region.
It emerged from the pink sheet that although the total number of registered voters for that polling station was 210, the pink sheet recorded President Mahama as annexing 270 votes, while the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, got 16,419 votes, with the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) candidate, Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, getting 117 votes.
What was even more striking was that the presiding officer of that polling station wrote 270 in words as ‘twenty seven zero’
Earlier, lawyers for the petitioners had confronted Dr Afari-Gyan with 46 pink sheets with duplicate serial numbers.
The paired pink sheets, which were in 23 lots, were scrutinised by Dr Afari-Gyan, who conceded that they had the same serial numbers.
Meanwhile, respondents in the ongoing presidential election petition have opposed calls by the petitioners to the Supreme Court to refer issues on 1,545 pink sheets to international audit firm, KPMG, for further consideration.
The petitioners are praying the court to grant their request in order to ensure justice, and facilitate fair and speedy determination of the issues in controversy in the petition in order to establish a comprehensive unique count of pink sheets filed by the petitioners, but the respondents have objected to the request.
Watch the live telecast of the hearing of the case at the Supreme Court of Ghana. Courtesy:GTV