Will having cameras and media men in the Court room have an impact on the final verdict? I doubt so…
However, I know TV and Radio broadcast will enable the many Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians interested in this case to follow proceedings closely and be able to decide how much fairness the Court will give to the case…
Whatever it is, we all pray and hope Justice will prevail!
Graphic Online Reports;
There would be a live television and radio broadcast of the landmark electoral petition, which is beginning hearing of the substantive matter on Tuesday April 16.
The National broadcaster, GTV and Radio Ghana would be allowed to survey a set up on Tuesday April 16, 2013.
It is however not clear whether the live broadcast would commence Tuesday on the first day of hearing of the substantive matter, but the subsequent hearing days would be live on television and radio.
Hearing of the landmark electoral petition, which is contesting the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as the winner of the December 2012 presidential polls begins at the Supreme Court in Accra Tuesday.
The petitioners are expected to call their first witness/and or witnesses Tuesday, depending on how long the witness/witnesses would testify and how long cross-examination would take and if need be, how long the re-examination lasts.
The case, which promises to be a significant historical event in Ghana’s legal and political culture, has the petitioners urging the court to annul 4,670,504 valid votes and subsequently declare the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as the one who won the December 2012 elections.
According to them, Nana Akufo-Addo won the elections by 59.69 per cent while President Mahama polled 39.1 per cent.
They are, therefore, challenging the EC’s declaration of President Mahama as winner of the presidential polls with 50.70 per cent.
However, the EC, which is one of the respondents in the case and the conductor of the polls, is standing by its December 9, 2012 declaration of President Mahama as the winner of the polls with 50.7 per cent while it still holds that Nana Akufo-Addo placed second with 47.7 per cent.
THE NDC THIEVES ARE WORRIED the whole world will witness how much they are demonic and thieves.
I cant wait for them to get on stand to defend themselves with all the mounting evidence.
this party is uprooted forever. Thieves. may you and your 10 gEnerations be cursed for ever for what you have put ghanaians through, As for afari gyan he is a dead man working. May he llive to be a 100 and suffer. GENERATIONAL CURSES THAT CAN NEVER BE ERASED. SINS OF YOUR FATHERS. TO O’YALL WHOSE FATHERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS ARE IN THE GOVT ROBBING GHANA DRY. YOU ARE CURSED FOREVER
True democracy at its finest. Maybe other african countries where the leaders steal – they too can learn from ghana, that it doesnt benefit any body if you steal.
ASIEDU NKETIA AND BEN EPHSON OR WHATEVER THE FCK HE CALLS HIM SELF (FAT ASS) – U MIGHTY QUIET TODAY HUH).
YES PRESIDENT MAHAMA WE KNOW YOU PLAN A POWER OUTAGE TOMMOROW BUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU DO, YOU HAVE LOST THIS BATTLE.
GOOD BYE USE LESS PRESIDENT
(FREEDOM OF SPEECH)
@MAAME,Please die , i beg you please die. You will help this country greatly by doing so.
It hasn’t even started and you are already deciding the winner.
If a war happens in Ghana ,i hope you die first.
@Rocky, No she wont die those who steals are the ones who will enter their early graves.
@Rocky, how can you wish someone death just like that? its not fair at all….
@Rocky, i will after you and your family memebers die in a deadly car crash. KWASIA. Mahama is finished, all those 9 cows he and Asiedu Nketia went this past weekend to volta to bury to confuse the judges will not work.
Prayer works and the DEVIL (which is your and your NDC ppl ofcourse) never wins.
Do you know how many people are fasting and praying. YOU WILL NOT WIN.
THIEVES,
BORN THIEVES, a recipe passed down from generation as we all know. Mahama, The Tsikatas, Ahwois, Asiedu Nketia , Ablakwa etc etc – You have FAILED.
Why do you think none of Rawlings daughters have a husband. Yes its the curse of the father from the father killing judges in the 80s and many more peopple.
The party who Came to STEAL KILL AND DESTROY from the time the founder set the party up. After 20 odd years, Ghana has had enough,. GO away you DEVIL DEMONIC BUNCH.
@MAAME, u have said it all my dear