Dep A-G asks court to merge new EC case to be heard on June 23
The deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has asked the Supreme Court to merge the new case filed against the Electoral Commission together with that of the National Democratic Congress.
His argument is that both cases are related to the EC’s decision to compile a new register.
The Supreme Court has scheduled June 23 to give its ruling on the NDC suit challenging the EC’s decision to exclude the existing voter register as proof of eligibility for the registration process.
The new case was filed by a native of Breman-Kokoso in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa district of the Central Region, Mark Takyi-Banson.
He has also challenged the decision of the commission to use the Ghana Card and the Ghanaian passport as the only means of identification.
The plaintiff wants the EC to include a birth certificate and the existing voters’ ID card as an accepted form identification in the upcoming mass voters’ registration exercise.
In the fresh suit that revisits the abandoned leg of the NDC’s case, the plaintiff argued that the EC only has the power to revise and expand the voter’s register.
The fresh legal challenge is similar to the one contained in the main opposition NDC’s legal suit against the EC.
But that first leg of their case was dropped in court during a hearing on Thursday, June 11.
The Deputy Attorney General has since filed a motion at the Supreme Court asking that it merges the two cases.
The motion will be argued on June 19, 2020.
Find the letter to that effect
