Former President John Mahama has served notice to President Akufo-Addo to get ready to pack out of the Jubilee House after the December 7, 2020 elections.
Mr. Mahama said a major defeat awaits the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and that no “amount of politically engineered electoral register” will save them.
Reacting to the Supreme Court’s verdict that the Electoral Commission can go ahead to compile a new register without using the old voter’s ID card and birth certificates as references, Mr. Mahama said that will not save the government.
“No politically engineered register can save this government from the defeat that awaits it in December. With or without a new voters register, the NDC shall win the elections,” the NDC flagbearer said.
Also, he said the NDC is “deeply disappointed” in the decision of the apex court.
On Thursday, the apex court dismissed two suits that were seeking the use of the existing voter identification card and birth certificates as the source documents for the upcoming voter registration exercise.
The seven-member panel of the Supreme Court dismissed the case by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) which wanted an order for the use of the existing voter ID card and one Mark Takyi-Benson, who wanted the use of a birth certificate as source documents for eligibility to register as a voter.
Mahama said: “We are deeply disappointed and we strongly disagree with the court over this outcome which has confounded everyone and created even more confusion in the minds of many Ghanaians”.
The ruling
The Supreme Court further held that the Electoral Commission (EC) has the authority granted under Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution to compile an electoral roll.
The apex court granted only two reliefs sought by the NDC which had nothing to do with the inclusion of the use of an existing voter ID card as source documents and dismissed all the other reliefs.
It was a total of eight reliefs that were before the Supreme Court.
