The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2020 election petition be telecasted live on national television.
The request was granted Thursday ahead of the first hearing of the election petition.
Lawyers of NDC’s presidential candidate made a request for the election petition to be live on national Television.
This, according to the petitioners, is in the interest of fairness as was done during the 2012 election petition.
The hearing of the petition will be broadcast live on Ghana Television (GTV).
Petitioner’s case
In his petition, former President Mahama contended that no candidate won the 2020 presidential election and, therefore, the declaration of President Akufo-Addo as the winner of the election by the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, was “null, void, unconstitutional and of no legal effect”.
He argued that as per the results announced by Mrs Mensa on December 9,2020, no candidate garnered more than 50 percent of the total valid votes cast, as required by Article 63(3) of the 1992 Constitution.
According to him, the EC Chairperson announced the total valid votes cast as 13,434,574, minus the results of Techiman South, with President Akufo-Addo obtaining 6,730,413 of the votes, representing 51.595 percent of the votes, while he (Mahama) got 6,214,889, representing 47.366 percent of the votes.
It is the case of Mr Mahama that per the figures, the actual percentage for President Akufo-Addo minus Techiman South ought to be 50.098 percent and not 51.595 percent, as announced by the EC Chairperson.
He also argued that his percentage minus Techiman South should be 46.26 percent and not 47.366 percent.