Daily Searchlight Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Crunchy has been asked by the Supreme Court to adjust two of his claims in a lawsuit aimed at disqualifying former President John Mahama from running in the 2024 presidential election. instructed.
Mr. Kranche’s lawsuit, like the case dismissed by the Supreme Court in November 2023, challenges Mr. Mahama’s eligibility for re-election in 2024.
Among the remedies he is seeking, Kranche is seeking a declaration that the presidential term of office is four years, in accordance with Article 66, Section 1 of the 1992 Constitution.
In court on Wednesday, May 8, Mr. Clanchy, who is also a private lawyer, asked for permission to extend the two remedies by adding constitutional provisions. The request was not opposed by the defendants, Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame, former President John Mahama’s lawyer, Tony Lisua, and the Speaker of National Assembly’s lawyer, Thaddeus Soley.
According to EIB Network legal correspondent Murtala Inusah, the committee was chaired by Chief Justice Gertrude Turkournou and included Justices Mariamma Owusu, Avril Lovelace-Johnson, Henrietta Mensa-Bons, Samuel Asiedu and Ernest. The panel, sitting with Justices Guewu and Yaw Darko Asare, ordered Kranche to revise his claims. May 10, 1014.
During the hearing, Mr. Crunchy, on behalf of Mahama, announced his intention to extend the first two remedies aimed at disqualifying Mahama.
The reliefs he tried to expand on were:
1. A declaration that pursuant to Article 66(1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution, a person seeking a second term as President must be a sitting President.
2. A declaration that, pursuant to Article 66(1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution, the second term of the President must be consecutive to the first term.
The Attorney General, former President John Agyokum Kufuor, former President John Dramani Mahama, and the Ghanaian Parliament were named as first to fourth defendants in the lawsuit, respectively.
The relief sought by the plaintiffs includes:
– Declaration on the interpretation of Article 66(1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution.
– Declaration on the Role of Parliament in Supervising the Former President of Ghana.
– Orders directed against various defendants relating to parliamentary approval and disclosure of post-departure involvement.
The Supreme Court set the next hearing for May 10, 1014, to consider Crunchy’s amended claim.
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