Supreme Court strikes out Mahama's stay of proceedings application

The Supreme Court has today, January 28 struck out an application for a stay of proceedings filed by lawyers of the petitioner, Mr John Dramani Mahama in the ongoing hearing of the Elections petition case.

The application had asked the Apex Court to put the main Election Petition trial on hold until it hears and determines his application for review seeking to overturn the court’s dismissal of another application which sought leave to serve 12 interrogatories on the Electoral Commission (EC)

Mr Mahama wanted the Commission’s Chair Jean Mensa to admit, among other things, that the figures and percentages she announced come to 100.3% instead of 100%.

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The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) also wanted her to admit that the subsequent correction of results in statements issued by the EC is different from what candidates obtained as captured in the summary of results sheets published by the EC.

But on Thursday January 28 Mr Tsatsu Tsikata moved the motion announcing a withdrawal of application of the stay of proceedings.

The Chief Justice Anin Yeboah then proceeded to announce that the motion has been struck.