Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur says he is surprised Ghana�s Supreme Court was not unanimous in dismissing all the pleadings of the petitioners in the presidential poll challenge.
The nine-member panel of Justices of the apex Court, by majority decision, dismissed the Petitioners� case on Thursday August 29, 2013 and declared President John Mahama �validly elected�.
Amissah-Arthur told Journalists at the Flagstaff House minutes after the verdict was pronounced that: �I�ve never doubted that this will be the outcome�I �m surprised that it wasn�t 9-0 9-0 throughout�.
According to him, Petitioners � 2012 Presidential Candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, his running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and party Chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey - should not have gone to Court in the first place because they had a wobbly case.
�NPP had a weak case�they should not have brought [the case to court]�, he asserted.
��It�s been a long period of wait and uncertainty. It�s over, resolved definitively in favour of the President and we hope that everybody will now get on in supporting the President in doing his job�, Amissah-Arthur said.
He said the long-drawn case created uncertainty in the economy but expressed relief that: ��There�s some certainty now. We�re working for economic stability and growth�.
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