Justice Williams Atuguba has spoken for the first time since delivering judgement on the 2012 election petition.
In a yet to be aired documentary titled “The Election Petition” and produced by journalist Paul Adom Otchere, Justice Atuguba defended the decision of the court in favour of then President John Mahama.
Then candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Jacob Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey petitioned the Supreme Court to quash Mahama’s victory citing multiple infractions and irregularities.
The verdict of the court generated many controversies with some suggesting the decision of the court was rigged.
Of the rigged verdict suggested by some analysts, Justice Atuguba noted in the trailer of documentary circulating on Facebook:“Some people held some kind of discussion at the British Council and gave the impression that the verdict if properly analysed should have gone in favour of the plaintiffs.”
He continued: “Quite clearly not and this kind of thing, you know, to the ordinary man will mean that something had drastically had gone wrong with the decision process and that it wasn’t the correct verdict. But that is very very unfortunate.”
The Supreme Court judge, who was appointed by former President Jerry John Rawlings, will retire from the bench in 2018.
He missed out to become the Chief Justice early this year when the position became vacant.
Source: Daily Heritage
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MOST GHANAIANS WERE NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON ELECTION PETITION. WE THANK GOD WHO IN HIS OWN TIME HAS RESOUNDLY GIVEN THE RIGHT VERDICT TO DISAPPROVE ANY TWIST OF JUSTICE. AFTER ALL HE IS THE ONE TRUE JUDGE OF ALL. NO ONE CAN FIGHT AGAINST WHAT GOD HAS ORDAINED TO HAPPEN. ANY OPPOSITION TO WHAT IS TRUE AND GENUINE RESULTS IN DISGRACE AND SHAME. WE ALL NEED PATIENCE TO ALLOW GOD TO DO THINGS WELL FOR US.
I THANK GOD FOR YOUR LIFE ATUGUBA, YOU ARE GOING TO SEE REAL GOVERNANCE UNDER NANA ADDO. YOU PLUNGE THE WHOLE COUNTRY INTO THE ECONOMICS MESS DUE TO YOUR SELFISH AND POOR JUDGEMENT. YOUR NAME WOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN DUE TO YOUR BAD JUDGEMENT AND THE HARDSHIPS GHANAIANS WENT THROUGH UNDER 'DUMSOR' MAHAMA, REAL ARM ROBBER PRESIDENT YOU IMPOSE ON GHANAIANS. YOU SAW THE REAL SIZE OF MAHAMA IN 2016 AND WHAT IS HAPPENING AT EC OFFICIALS WHO PERPETRATED THAT GARGANTUAN CRIME AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GHANA. GOD HAVE SAVED GHANA.
You saw Prez Mahama as a Northener so you did what you could with Asantehene and Nana Oye kakai Lithur to perpetrate travesty of justice against the the people of Ghana. What is annoying is EC's choosing choosing of a president for the country through rigging.Then what is the need to form long queues to vote? Corrupt Afari Gyan could have gone ahead to declare the president. Only Justice Atuguba understand 27zero. I hope Anas had caught him as well.
Go ahead and sell your documentary and enjoying your retirement,your poor verdict will hunt you to death.you plunged the whole into the hands of corruption and incompetence ***barred word*** to run the whole affairs of the country.
HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA IT'S TOO LATE NOW. WE ORDINARY GHANAIAN KNOW THAT THERE IS NO FIGURE CALL ("TWENTY SEVEN ZERO". "27,0")
Your verdict have already scude-up the country,so what are you telling us now? Corrupt justice.
honorable judge, how could you asked lawyer Addison to ask permission from the court and tell the Tsatsu that he could talk without the permission of the court within minutes of each statement? sad but as you can see, the battle is still the Lords and you would need a miracle to be a CJ
It is too late for him to become Chief Justice. His attendance at the NPP Thanksgiving Service cannot see him becoming Chief Justice. The next in line is Jce Dotse. We need upright people like Dotse.
Justice Atugbuga "Justice must not be sacrificed on the alter of strict adherence to provisions of law, which at times create hardship and unfairness" Con someone explain this to me?
It is unfortunate that Justice Atuguba has come out to add salt to injury. How on earth could he be impartial? It is a clear fact that JJ abused the constitutional provision that non-judges could be added to the Supreme court when he called him to the august bench. His call was purely political, for such instances of controversial legal battles, because he did not have what it takes to be a Supreme Court judge by then. Mr Atuguba demonstrated his political appointment with distinction! How many times did he vote for the petitioners throughout the 8 months trial? What about the many rumours of millions of dollars circulating around that time that was supposed to be for bribery? Please, Mr Judge, spare us our breath. What you did will continue to be a bane on Ghana's judiciary.