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Legal Practitioner, Tsatsu Tsikata, has explained that he refused to support his onetime partner in law, Nana Akufo-Addo, in the election petition case, because in his view, the NPP’s case for which it went to court to challenge the results of the election was “pathetic” and lacked merit.

Not only did the Nana Addo and Mr. Tsikata work together as the counsel in the Tuffuor vrs Attorney General case which involved Tsatsu’s uncle, Justice Apalu, but Nana Addo was also a roommate to Tsatsu’s cousin at the University of Ghana.

Despite their relationship, Tsatsu Tsikata played the role of lead counsel in the high profile case involving Ghana’s two main political parties, the NDC and the NPP.

Speaking on Citi FM, Mr. Tsikata explained that he supported the NDC because he was convinced the NPP’s basis for its suit was “legally pathetic”.

“Representing the NDC in an election petition was because I did not consider the grounds on which that election was being challenged as really having any merit or whatsoever. I think I describe them as legally pathetic and so on; and I believe we needed to get clarity on the number of important legal issues that were being raised in that thing. You had things about serial numbers and so on and attempts to disenfranchise millions of people and millions of voters in this country. Citizens had cast their votes without doing anything wrong” he explained.