The 2020 election petition has been likened to the preparation of palm nut soup “abenkwan” by the Deputy Director of Legal Affairs of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Baba Jamal, which needs certain basic ingredients to prepare the soup.
According to him, without the basic ingredients, it was impossible to prepare the palm nut soup; hence, the situation of the lawyers of the Petitioner as they could not get the needed documents from the Chairperson of the 1st Respondent to the 2020 election petition to make their case stronger.
“Our case in court was like preparing palm nut soup ‘abenkwan’; the palm nut soup needs certain ingredients to make it happen, but we asked for pepper and we were not given; we asked for onion, fish and other ingredients but we were not given. Is it possible to prepare the palm nut soup ‘abenkwan’? This is the situation we found ourselves in court,” he narrated.
In an interview with the host Kwame Nkrumah Tikese on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, the former Akwatia lawmaker blamed the Supreme Court for denying the lawyers of the Petitioner the opportunity to make their case stronger as the court did not allow them to demand certain documents from the Chairperson of the 1st Respondent to buttress their case.
“The Supreme Court said that the Petitioner, John Dramani Mahama had a genuine case except that the supporting documents which the Supreme Court should have allowed the lawyers to get from the Chairperson of the 1st Respondent were denied and the Justices based on our case to pass judgment,” he bemoaned.
To him, nobody should stand anywhere to conclude that former President John Dramani Mahama had no case to pursue in court except that the documents to make a strong case in court were not made available by the Chairperson of the 1st Respondent.
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Don't be a hypocritical , you are a lawyer when you based your winning case the "accused" providing you the evidence. I though we are in a jurisdiction where one who alleges provides evidence. Has it change ? Let me know.
NDC paa. I am not a lawyer oo. But I bet I could have presented a better case than the Tsatsu-team did. My figures against EC's. The question was how do you get the EC (not Jean Mensah) into the box? You provide counter figures to support your no-one-won case, then EC will mount the box to justify their figures and you get to ask your questions! I think that Tsatsu realized, rather too, late that the case was after Asiedu Nketie gave his 'Star Evidence' to the tune that they are only after embarrassing Jean M about her 'mathematics'. So Baba Jamal, vamooooose!
How do you go to court without evidence? Did you provide and figures? Where is your collation figure? In the 2013 election, you depended on the electoral commission, in 2016 you did the same thing if when you were trailing behind NPP you told you supporters who do not read that you are in a comfortable lead, this world we are if you do not learn a lesson from your mistake, your will continue to repeat at all time
I knew it would come to this p3333! How do you also go the the Supreme Court without your own obtained figures? What did you obtain in terms of votes??? If you told the court perhaps things would have gone your way.
So?