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Mr Philip Addison, Counsel for petitioners, had a difficult time with the bench on Wednesday when he sought to tender a list of some re-categorisation of exhibits. The re-categorisation of exhibits was that of polling stations that were found in other categories in some pink sheets. According Mr Addison, since the polling stations had been moved from one category to another and Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, Counsel for third respondent, had cross-examined the witness on it, it would not be fair for him not to be allowed to tender the exhibit. Mr Addison said the court overruled an earlier ruling which gave the petitioners the leave to come back and provide properly labelled exhibits. Justice William Atuguba said counsel for petitioner had "taken a bad gamble" with respect to the ruling made by the court and that he could not come back on Thursday to continue his re-examination. Mr Addison, however, said justice had been denied the petitioners "through the back door". Justice Atuguba, however, warned Mr Addison that he could not dictate to the bench what they should do. Mr Addison, however, replied that he was not dictating to the bench and that he wanted to continue the re-examination on Thursday since it would be in the interest of justice. Justice Atuguba said the court was curtailing his re-examination because he refused to retreat as directed by the bench. Mr Tsikata had earlier objected to the list saying it did not have any exhibit number adding that the exhibit was being smuggled in. Mr Tony Lithur, Counsel for the first respondent, also objected to the list that if it was admitted they could not even find its counterpart. "We need to know which exhibit they are moving," he added. Besides, Mr Addison also had a frantic time re-examining Dr Bawumia due to persistent objections by counsel for first and third respondents. All objections raised by the respondents against his questions were upheld by the court except two which included the categorisation of some of the polling stations. The witness had admitted during his cross-examination that there were issues with mislabeling on those categorisation.