A review application by Former Ghana’s President John, Mahama seeking to have the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, testify in the 2020 presidential election petition has been dismissed by the nation’s apex court for the second time.
According to local reports, the review application filed by Mahama (petitioner) was urging the court to change its earlier ruling on February 16, this year, not to allow him to reopen his case to enable his lawyers subpoena the Chairperson of the EC, to testify in court.
But in a recent unanimous ruling, a nine-member review panel of the apex court, held that the application for review failed to meet the criteria for review as set out in Rule 54 of the Supreme Court rules, 1996 (C.I 16):
The court ruled that the former President, in the review, failed to demonstrate any exceptional circumstances that had occasioned a miscarriage of justice to him (Mahama), neither did he introduce any new matter that could convince the court to change its ruling.
Recall that Mahama lost the election to the incumbent president.
