Adu-Asare condemns Supreme Court Judge over comments against EC

Kojo Adu-Asare, Presidential Staffer

A Presidential Staffer, Kojo Adu-Asare has lambasted a Supreme Court Judge over a comment he describes as unfair to the Electoral Commission.

The obviously unhappy panel of Supreme Court Justices presided over by Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, expressed their displeasure over what they termed the laissez-faire attitude of the EC in obeying their orders in the Abu Ramadan suit.

One of the panel members Justice Sulley Gbadegbe is reported to have warned that the Electoral commission will not be allowed to plunge the country into chaos.

The EC on Thursday failed to give an elaborate plan on how it intends to delete names of voters who registered with NHIS cards.

The Commission, which presumably understood the judgement of the Supreme Court differently on the deletion of NHIS card registrants, had said the names would be deleted using existing procedures.

The EC’s explanation caused the plaintiff, former People’s National Convention’s (PNC) National Youth Organiser, Abu Ramadan, and Evans Nimako, who secured the May 5 ruling, to go back to the Court seeking a clarification of the judgment.

But speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo show Friday, Kojo Adu-Asare who’s also a former MP for Adenta stated that the comments by Justice Sulley Gbadegbe, leaves much to be desired as the Supreme Court appears to have taken a judgmental stance on this matter.

“At this stage there’s too much tension in the system and you are dealing with two parties in a case. It sounds too much judgmental on this matter because it tends to tilt the arguments against the Electoral Commission, it sounds like the comment has taken a certain stance against the EC while the case is ongoing.

“ Such statement could have been held on at this stage until the EC fails to comply with the orders by 29th June, when the EC is seen to have taken a certain posture disrespecting or disregarding their orders, then it would have elicited such a remark… indeed that comment didn’t sit well with me at all.”