The Supreme Court adjourned the judgment of National Democratic Congress-(NDC) against the Electoral Comission indefinitely.
This was after a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice, Kwesi Anin Yeboah ruled that the case be adjourned.
The NDC had dragged to court over its decision not include the existing voters’ register as a requirement in compiling the new voters’ register.
Last week the Supreme Court fixed the final judgment of the case for Tuesday, 23 June but they have now adjourned it indefintely.
This was after the Supreme Court on Friday heard a similar case and granted the request by the Attorney General to have the two cases consolidated.
Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in an application urged the Supreme Court to merge the new case filed against the Electoral Commission with the other case which was due for judgement on June 23.
Both cases relate to the EC’s decision to compile a new voters’ register.
Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in an application urged the Supreme Court to merge the new case filed against the Electoral Commission with the other case which was due for judgement on June 23.
Both cases relate to the EC’s decision to compile a new voters’ register.
The application by one Mark Takyi-Benson against the EC was subsequently consolidated.
The applicant and his lawyers have been asked to file their statement of case by 12:00noon on Monday, June 22. The court also ordered the AG to file their statement of case also by Tuesday, June 23, 2020.
The parties are to return to court on Wednesday, June 24, for hearing. The opposition NDC argues that a new voter’s register will deprive many Ghanaians the right to vote in the polls if the existing voters’ ID card is rejected a claim the EC disagrees with.
The party has argued in its suit that the EC lacks the power to go ahead with its plans because it can only “compile a register of voters only once, and thereafter revise it periodically, as may be determined by law”.
