Justin Amenuvor, counsel for the Electoral Commission in the mandamus application hearing has prayed to the High Court to make appropriate orders that will enable the Commission to complete the collation process in the various collation centres in dispute. "If this court does not make the appropriate orders for the EC to go and finish its work in the presence of the very limited number of persons outlined in the Constitutional Instrument (C.I 127) a dangerous precedent for our democracy will be set whereby all manner of thugs, hoodlums, will evade constituency collation centres and even without the appropriate forms prescribed in the C.I.
for the election raise the hand of somebody holding an A4 sheet and saying that it is done," he said.
Earlier, lawyers for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have firmed up their argument that the collation of the results in the Tema Central Constituency could not be completed due to alleged intimidation with a claim that the person who declared the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) Ebi Bright was not the returning officer of the EC.
Moving the mandamus application at the General Jurisdiction of the High Court in Accra on Wednesday (Jan 1, 2025), Gary Nimako Marfo pointed the court to a video which was played in open court.
