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Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, the Deputy Minister of Information and Media Relations, has interpreted the ruling in the on-going petition trial, to disallow the cross examination of four other witnesses as pleaded by the lead counsel of the third respondent, as equal to the Supreme Court saying the evidence presented by the petitioners with respect to the four witnesses are irrelevant. He stated: �If I heard Justice Atuguba very well, he said that the evidence they tendered in connection with those four people were irrelevant to the case�. ��if it was indeed relevant, he would have allowed those people to be cross examined. He said that they have enough evidence to prosecute their case and to determine whether indeed NPP has a case or not. So I think it was irrelevant because I belief in the law court, they accept things that are relevant,� he maintained. On Citi FM�s �Big Issues� programme, honorable Mutarla Mohammed insisted that Tsatsu Tsikata�s inability to cross examine those witnesses would not have a negative effect on the case of the respondents, but it would have been an �opportunity to further expose the NPP�s lack of understanding as far as the electoral rules and procedure are concerned�. He made these comments after suggestions by a section of the general public that Tsatsu Tsikata only put in the plea to cross examine the four witnesses who were mainly New Patriotic Party (NPP) members, as part of his tactics to further delay the court proceedings.