Barely a week after he headlined the media landscape with his “corrupt” description of a Supreme Court’s verdict, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has yet again stirred the hornet’s nest with his claim that the court mistakenly read out a reversed judgment.
The Executive Director of Danquah Institute, a pro opposition think tank, remarked that after a careful study of the 588 page-long ruling dated 29th August 2013 on the 2012 presidential election petition, five of the judges agreed with the petitioners’ case as against four for the first respondent, John Dramani Mahama.
Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, the first petitioner and 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, and two others filed the petition against the election of President John Mahama.
Justice William Atuguba, president of the nine panel Supreme Court judges, read the verdict in an open court:
