The ongoing election petition has resumed on Tuesday with some drama after the counsel for the Third respondent, Tsatsu Tsikata, made a submission to the Supreme Court that the boxes containing pink sheet to be audited by KPMG has ‘mysteriously’ increased to 31 from 24.
According to Mr. Tsikata, they received information from their representatives after the auditing of the pink sheets by accounting firm KPMG had started, and that some additional boxes containing pink sheets had been added to the number of boxes in the registrar’s department.
Mr. Tsikata requested that KPMG be given one of the pink sheets given to the judges for the auditing since the one in the registrar’s office has been compromised.
Meanwhile, Lawyers for the petitioners in the election petition case have raised a formal objection for the counting to be suspended.
Lead Counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison, in his submissions, referred to the respondents as children who have been over pampered, and asked the court to dismiss the application by the respondents.
The exercise has been suspended following concerns by the respondents that the process has been compromised.
Source: GhanaWeb
