Ghana 2012 Election Petition: Bawumia Mounts Witness Box To Lead Evidence
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia It is Day Two of the substantive hearing on the election petition. Petitioners are set to open their case. Second petitioner Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has mounted the witness box to lead evidence. Lead Counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison gets ready to cross examine him. Bawumia tells the court he is in the witness box today because the declaration made by the second respondent, Electoral Commission in the 2012 elections cannot be supported by the primary evidence he has gathered as the chairman of the committee tasked to investigate alleged irregularities in the 2012 elections. He says as head of committee he received thousands of irregularities on statement of polls and declaration of results known as pink sheets. “We found numerous malpractices and statutory violations and irregularities as evidenced in the primary record of the elections at the polling station called pink sheets." It is the record on which basis the second respondent declare...