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  • Before & After 10 years ago

    The case has been thrown out. Period!

  • KB 10 years ago

    May God punish those who were bribed.

  • kabokabo 10 years ago

    Where are the prophecies?
    I hope some are waiting till 2016.Lol

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    scribes and pharisees were supposed to be learned men like your toilet carrying atuguba but it was the evil knowledge of the devil and now we know no institution is correct . the good thing about all of this is that more and ...
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  • kakadika 10 years ago

    NPP=NARCOTICS PEDDLERS PARTY ,they can set themselves ablaze. ghana is not akans only.

  • Guv 10 years ago

    Instaed of presenting evidence and facts, NPP presented 20 lawyers without evidence. Jokers.

  • Guv 10 years ago

    Instead of presenting evidence and facts, NPP presented 20 lawyers without evidence. Jokers.

  • TDA 10 years ago

    So why then did the case take 8months? what were they "arguing" on?
    You want to see the real joker? look in the mirror!

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Where is your Addison now, the Lawer.
    Akufo try to find him out.

  • TDA 10 years ago

    So you're saying NPP consists of Akans only? That is how black people get caught out being labled as racists too, because they tend to hate all whites due to the actions of few. I have an Ewe friend who is NPP. He is upset th ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    The truth is there are idiots on both sides. Insight to the bone is an npp example whilst the cockroach kakalika represents the useless ndc. However the npp can stage a real strategic coup by electing someone like Jake or B ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    maybe you forgot to add your alan cash but we want ken agyapong , sir john and karbo and not these aristocratic elitist wimps who can fight or if necessary go to the bush and raise an army

  • WILLIAM 10 years ago

    what is the fuss here!!!Wait till Monday.

  • sammy 10 years ago

    i am not sure where my sympathies are but i concur with your observation about JDM's appointments, and it gets me worried

  • Kwadwo 10 years ago

    Absolute rubbish!
    By an Akan.

  • BRA 10 years ago

    HAY THE RULING IS THE TRUE REFLECTION OF THE ISSUE.NPP HAD NO CASE.I WONDERED NO BODY IN THE NPP GROUP OF LAWYERS ADVISED THE PARTY.I AM A LAY MAN AS FAR AS COURT PROCEEDINGS ARE CONCERNED BUT THANKS TO THE LIVE BROADCAST OF ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Bra,so no one voted without biometric verification and when 5 people turn up to vote and the count shows 8,as long as 10 registered that is not over voting. You will surely benefit from free shs. As for the judges, I know the ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    ATUGUBA & CO., ELECTORAL COMMISSION BOUGHT BY THE CORRUPT NDC GOVERNMENT WITH GHANAS MONEY WHILES MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING AND DIEING OF POVERTY. ANYONE WHO HAS CHOPPED GHANA MONEY WILL SUFFER AND DIE IN SHAME. MAY FE ...
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  • osabere kotoko 10 years ago

    u still think someone was bribed? all the 9 judges? this is the problem with illiteracy

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Are you now doubting God. The battle is the Lord's. Yes

  • Kay 10 years ago

    The truth is they don't have any reason let us just ignore them.Our judiciary system is just too weak,which is the reason why we are poor.It was a big opportunity for them to redeem their image but they missed it.

  • Ben 10 years ago

    The SC seems more fraudulent than NDC itself.

  • NANAO!! MOTHER 10 years ago

    Ei Atubuga what a gargantuan ruling.You see when you lied it show up in everything you say .Atubuga you are not trusted.

  • KOFI ADDO 10 years ago

    Am sure you know where the sc is, if you are a man like me,drive there and tell them they are more fraudulent than NDC.

  • Kwabena Twumasi-Ankrah (London) 10 years ago

    This is serious. Are we in Medieval Ages where having access to information was extremely difficult to access. Or somebody powerful was trying to hoodwink the whole nation to believe the reasons were ready. Over to you Ghanai ...
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  • KKO 10 years ago

    Is it not obvious to you? The justices were supposed to have met on Tuesday to agree on their individual judgements, after which the "position" would have been given to the president of the court.

    The fact that they were t ...
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  • Maame Grace. 10 years ago

    We want reccomendations and what can be done next time around to avoid going tp court. Because from all indication it was the fault of the electoral commission so are heads rolling has some key workes or polling station agent ...
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  • ZAG 10 years ago

    waterville should seek a review. SC has make it known to us that 'shall' is not mandatory in the constitution. That is why no signature on pink sheet still made it valid by law. This is an eye opener on how some laws are inte ...
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  • 696969 10 years ago

    ATUGUBRIBE CAN NEVER PRODUCE THE VERDICT NOW BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT WAS NOT FAIR VERDICT.
    OUR JUDGES ON 29/082013 PROVED TO THE WORLD THAT THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN GHANA. WITH THIS WILL ANY INVESTOR VENTURE TO DO ANY BUSINESS W ...
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  • Muosieyiri 10 years ago

    Well, we want to know the verdict to put to rest our convectures

  • Conventional Youth. 10 years ago

    What more evalutions do you need apart from, the chart of the judges voting parterns.

  • ATO 10 years ago

    THE VERDICT (DECISIONS) IS WHAT WAS GIVEN BY THE COURT YESTERDAY. WHAT HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED ARE THE REASONS BEHIND THE VERDICT.

  • Kojo 10 years ago

    You have 9 lengthy judgement which obviously are several pages long. These have to photocopied checked to make sure everything is photocopied correctly bound together and then made available. Aaaba Ghanafuo patience.

    The U ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    This is no excuse. The judges had two good weeks in addition to holidays and weekends to sit comfortably in their homes to make their decisions from all the notes written during the 8 months of the proceedings. Atuguba is not ...
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  • CAPE COAST BOY 10 years ago

    2016 ELECTION THIS NPP GUY'S WILL NOT GO TO SUPREME COURT AGAIN BUT PUT THE MATTER INTO THEIR OWN HANDS

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Savage

  • OKOE 10 years ago

    YESTERDAY ON GTV, I HEARD THE ARMY COLONEL SAYING THAT ANYONE WHO CROSSES THE LINE WILL BE DEALT WITH. I HOPE THOSE TAKING MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS WILL HAVE THE COLONEL WAITING FOR THEM IN THE FUTURE.

  • SAKARA AHMED 10 years ago

    THIS NPP GROUP OF PEOPLE SHOULD BE COOL-HEADED AND PUT AT THE BACK OF THEIR MINDS THAT THEY ARE NEVER BIGGER THAN GHANA. I WISH THEM WELL.GHANA HAS SPOKEN AND THE SC COURT THAT YOU TRUSTED YESTERDAY IS SEEN AS EVIL TODAY BECO ...
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  • ZAG 10 years ago

    This is a recipe for disaster for our nation.There is no need for electoral reforms if rules are made and not followed and the highest court of the land thinks that those rules are not so important. if the EC sets rules and d ...
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  • heinz Usa 10 years ago

    For every 9 judges 6 are corrupt and 3 are justice

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Would you have made this statement if your party had won

  • GBEVU 10 years ago

    HAVE THEY SAID SO? SHALL IS MANDATORY FINE, WHAT WRONG HAS THE VOTER DONE, WERE PARTY AGENTS NOT THERE WHO SIGNED? SHOULD JDM ALONE SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCE? HOW DO U KNOW THE NUMBER OF NPP / NDC VOTES IN THE BALLOT BOX. BY THE ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    Ghana is a peaceful country no mater what there would be no war b'cos security is very solid in town don't PANIC

  • CAPE COAST BOY 10 years ago

    THE NPP KNEW FROM THE ONE THAT WILLIAME ATUGUBA WAS VERY CORRUPT SO HIS ACTION WAS NOT A SUPRISE

  • Nyamekye Solomon 10 years ago

    My dear country men and women, I think we all that Nana Addo and His power drunk young NPP Leadership ignored the wise counsel of Ex-President Kuffour, Dr. Wireko Brobbey and a host of Knowledgeable and experienced Politician ...
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  • BRA 10 years ago

    OH CCB I THINK U HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG FROM THE FACTS PRESENTED BY LAWYER ADDISON AND THE WAY HE DID HIS PRESENTATION I KNEW EVEN B4 THE CASE WAS FINISHED THAT NPP HAD LOST THE CASE.
    FOR THE FEAR OF BEING DRAG TO COURT FOR C ...
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  • PRINCE B 10 years ago

    true

  • Honesty-the best policy! 10 years ago

    Once again the NPP propagandists have created another task for themselves. These restless souls will always find something for their idle hands and minds. But God who loves Ghana so much is always in control. Hence no shaking ...
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  • kolanut2013@gmail.com.... 10 years ago

    A landmark case that is resoundingly REJECTED on ALL grounds is not landmark at all. It is exposed for what it was; a HOAX, a VERY BAD JOKE gone wrong. It is an ADVENTURE to save face of a political party that has demonstrate ...
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  • mallam 10 years ago

    You are an idiot atuguba your reward is on the way

  • SAM 10 years ago

    I DID NOT TURST THEIR RULLING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

    NDC STUPID IMBECILES IN POWER - WHAT DID THEY DO FOR GHANA BEFORE K4 TIME AND THE PAST 30 YEARS IN POWER. NONSENSE

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Can't you make your case without insulting. Insults and tribalism will put us no where.

  • Kweku Adjaloo 10 years ago

    Bro don't worry about him. Those with facts and knowledge argue without resorting to insults. Others with limited or no knowledge resort to insults to cover their mental deficiency

  • Seth, UK 10 years ago

    Mahama said he'll win. Sir John had the opportunity to say this in open court and go to jail but he chickened out. If he had been in jail the final verdict could have been different. Atuguba served as a conduit for bribing th ...
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  • Honestman 10 years ago

    What kind of grammar is this that I have seen in this article? ... "contrary of the assertion that..." Is this English?

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE DELAY. I AM SURE THE SC GAVE IT OUT TO THE REGISTRY FOR PROPER BINDING AND PREPARATION BEFORE DISTRIBUTING TO THE RELEVANT PARTIES AND THE PUBLIC. SO YOU WILL GET IT SOON, EVEN IF IT IS NEXT WEEK FRIDAY ...
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  • owukua 10 years ago

    why cant you just let things be? must you always create mischief? is this a subtle attack on the integrity of the judges? give us a break!

  • Kwame Wi 10 years ago

    They have no integrity left in them after this shameful judgment They seem to be on a different planet. And they call themselves Lords. Lords under my foot!!!

  • PEE 10 years ago

    I AM DISAPPOINTED IN THE JUDICIARY. IT'S A SHAME TO THEIR CREDIT.MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEM

  • DO THE DO 10 years ago

    They have no better reason for their stupid verdict.

  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    Dragging this case for 8 months meant some substance was in it. Now whose time and money were wasted to drag the case for all this while only for them to come and arrogantly blab with this verdict. Grounds for civil war have ...
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  • npp nima 10 years ago

    What are you trying to imply? You are those creating the tension in Ghana. God will punish you.

  • CONCERN CITIZEN 10 years ago

    Yeasterday could be discribed as a Black day in our histry when justice was denied over 60% of our poor citizens and their rights were being trampled upon - for what reasons no one could phantom - maybe the white clothed (eve ...
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  • adam mohammed rabieu 10 years ago

    if they want they should send it to Haque

  • ANITA DE SOSO 10 years ago

    if you have taken bribes to disgrace yourselves and the judiciary, you will live to account for it no mastter how long it takes.

  • K. Mensah 10 years ago

    From day one, I said this man must be watched. This man who wanted everybody to worship him during the court hearing (because he had been lucky to have free education by the toil of the ordinary Ghanaian). Is that all the bes ...
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  • K. Mensah 10 years ago

    Why the Judges delayed in releasing the verdict? Who was Prez Mahama talking to at that very moment in his office with the vice when people were patiently awaiting the verdict? There are million questions to answer when all s ...
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  • justice 10 years ago

    NPP case has no bases and so not only Atuguba voted their case.

  • UFO 10 years ago

    Surprise verdict after all these irregularities. I was expecting a rerun. It seems the verdict was on party cum tribal lines.
    I sensed that when at the beginning I queried why the initial verdicts in the proceedings were 5-4 ...
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  • PP 10 years ago

    I wonder why people are waisting their time to comment on this preconceived verdict. Where is justice in this case? We thank God that Ghanaians by nature are peaceful.

  • sammy 10 years ago

    what are you trying to drive at, fellow? can you explain yourself better? did Nana,(I doff my hat for him, though) ask for a rerun? Am a layman, but i shudder to ask, can he be granted a rerun when he has not asked for that? ...
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  • patee 10 years ago

    some of the judges failed to deliver justice because of threats and money they received from john mahama a night to the judgement.

  • Nii Nortey (NY) 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS HAVE HEARD IT LOUD AND CLEAR. AKUFFO ADDO AND HIS COHORTS HAVE LOST THEIR CASE. THAT IS THE END OF THE STORY.

  • Whistle blower 10 years ago

    The SC JUDGES took 5 billion each to turn the verdict, We know...

  • OKOE 10 years ago

    EVEN THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA DOES NOT HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY. YOU MEAN 45 BILLION?ARE YOU IN YOUR RIGHT MIND? YOU ARE A JOKER OR AN ILLITERATE.

  • KING 10 years ago

    THIS CONFIRMS MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN THE HIGHEST COURT. GOD WILL PUNISH THEM AND THEIR DESCENDANTS THOSE WHO IGNORED THE LAWS

  • Adama d'Gharty, 10 years ago

    The whole verdict smells of typical Ghanaian rat. What next should we know?

  • Alhassan,walewale. 10 years ago

    The judicial service will undermind their integrity if they continue to go this way.Why averdict is delivered and no hand's set.Were they not individual addresses so how come none of them can be found in the registry.Shame on ...
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  • Ghanaba KK 10 years ago

    The much touted Dr Pink sheet lost 9-0 at the SC he has no credibility left. The case only portrayed him as an individual who can mischievously scheme to betray ordinary good intentioned voters.

  • AYIGBENII 10 years ago

    ATUGUBA AND THE JUDGES WHO TOOK BRIBE FROM JOHN MAHAMA NDC PARTY WILL DIE.MAY ANTOA NYAMAA KILL THEM AS SOONAS POSSIBLE......

  • Kweku Adjaloo 10 years ago

    Your Antoa Nyama is a tootless god who cannot do anything. That Antoa Nyama is waiting to be judged by the Almighty. So please, don't rely on it

  • Truth Investigator 10 years ago

    These judges have had plenty of time to deliberate and yet we see this dubious situation! I SMELL FOUL PLAY.