Legal Practitioner, Tsatsu Tsikata, has explained that he could not support his onetime partner in law, Nana Akufo-Addo, in the election petition case, because in his view, the NPP’s case for which it went to court to challenge the results of the 2012 election, was “pathetic” and lacked merit.
Not only did Nana Addo and Mr. Tsikata work together as the counsel in the Tuffuor vrs Attorney General case which involved Tsatsu’s uncle, Justice Apalu, but Nana Addo was also a roommate to Tsatsu’s cousin at the University of Ghana.
Despite their professional relationship, Tsatsu Tsikata led the NDC’s legal team in the high profile case involving Ghana’s two main political parties.
Speaking on Citi FM’s “Time with the Legends” segment of the Citi Breakfast Show, Mr. Tsikata explained that he supported the NDC because he was convinced the NPP’s basis for its suit was “legally pathetic”.
“Representing the NDC in an election petition was because I did not consider the grounds on which that election was being challenged as really having any merit or whatsoever. I think I describe them as legally pathetic and so on; and I believe we needed to get clarity on the number of important legal issues that were being raised in that thing. You had things about serial numbers and so on and attempts to disenfranchise millions of people and millions of voters in this country. Citizens had cast their votes without doing anything wrong” he explained.
The 9-member panel of the Supreme court of Ghana who sat on the presidential election petition ruled that the incumbent President John Dramani Mahama of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), was validly elected and declared president of the Republic of Ghana in the presidential poll of 7th and 8th December 2012.
Out of the nine judges, five voted against the NPP’s petition, whereas four supported it.
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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