Withdraw Supreme Court lawsuit – Akoto Ampaw urges EC

A private legal practitioner, Akoto Ampaw has urged Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) to withdraw its lawsuit challenging the judgement by an Accra High Court on the disqualification of the flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Papa Kwesi Nduom from the presidential elections.

Speaking on The Ghana Report TV show on Monday, Mr Ampaw expressed shock at the move by the Commission, given the limited number of days to the country’s general elections.

According to him, “the principles for ‘certiorari’ when you apply to the high court to quash a decision of an inferior tribunal like the Electoral Commission (EC) are not the same as the principles required to quash a decision of the High Court by the Supreme Court.’’

Mr Akoto Ampaw suggested that the EC may not succeed in its bid to have the judgement overturned at the Supreme Court.

He argued that the superior courts are assumed to know the law hence such cases against its judgement at the Supreme Court can only be won on the grounds of conditions including the lack of jurisdiction or the principles of natural justice.

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