NDC Drops New Register Argument in Court

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has abandoned its legal case seeking to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from going ahead with the voter registration exercise.

The NDC’s suit at the Supreme Court is based on two premises - first, that the attempt by the EC to compile a new registration exercise was unconstitutional and second that the decision of the EC to exclude an existing voter ID as a form of identification for the exercise was also unconstitutional.

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However, at Thursday morning’s hearing, lawyer for the NDC, Mr Godwin Kodzo Tameklo, per reports from Graphiconline abandoned the first leg which had to do with the constitutionality of the EC’s decision to conduct that exercise.

That was after the court told counsel that per the rules of court, a party cannot be seeking a relief and also asked to be granted another relief in the alternative.

Counsel took a cue from the bench and abandoned the relief that had to do with the EC’s decision to conduct the registration exercise.

SOURCE: Graphiconline