Election Petition: Supreme Court strikes out portions of Asiedu Nketia’s statement

The Supreme Court has struck out portions of the witness statement submitted in court on behalf of the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, in the ongoing Election Petition hearing.

This was after Akoto Ampaw, the lead lawyer for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, asked the Supreme Court to delete portions of Mr. Nketia’s statement.

Mr. Ampaw argued that ten paragraphs in Asiedu Nketia’s statement should be expunged because they are “not based on the pleadings of the petitioner, unduly prejudicial and scandalous”.

However, the lead counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata opposed the objections raised.

Mr. Tsukata insisted that every paragraph in Asiedu Nketia’s statement is “material” to their case.

However, the Supreme Court in ruling over the objection struck out seven paragraphs out of the ten paragraphs that President Akufo-Addo’s lawyer objected to.

The paragraphs struck out are 6,7,25,26,28,30 and 37.

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