Pathetic NPP petitioners are clutching at straw

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Banza Yaro 12 years ago

Pathetic NPP petitioners are clutching to the straw while the incompetent respondents are stealing the straw piece by piece. Who is going to end up with the last straw? We will know come judgement day.!!!!

Pathetic NPP petitioners are clutching to the straw while the incompetent respondents are stealing the straw piece by piece. Who is going to end up with the last straw? We will know come judgement day.!!!!
DR. Bokor Jnr 12 years ago

This fool tickles me, sold his conscience. so pathetic !!!

This fool tickles me, sold his conscience. so pathetic !!!
STUPID EWE 12 years ago

BOKOR CAN WRITE KILOMETERS OF SHEETS THERE WILL NEVER BE A SIGLE SENSE IN IT, APART FROM PARTISAN AND TROKOSI NONSENSE.

I WONDER HOW KUMAH BOKOR AN EWE EMPTY NONENTITY FOOL COULD BE A Dr.

BOKOR CAN WRITE KILOMETERS OF SHEETS THERE WILL NEVER BE A SIGLE SENSE IN IT, APART FROM PARTISAN AND TROKOSI NONSENSE.

I WONDER HOW KUMAH BOKOR AN EWE EMPTY NONENTITY FOOL COULD BE A Dr.
GOLD COAST MAN 12 years ago

And they want their 70 years old Nana to be president at all cost through back door. When you lose elections and refusing to concede how could you be asking the winner to concede if not fools. And the NPP keep keep giving the ...
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And they want their 70 years old Nana to be president at all cost through back door. When you lose elections and refusing to concede how could you be asking the winner to concede if not fools. And the NPP keep keep giving their foolish and mental case supporters false hopes. Take your Nana to Abuakwa and make him you king
Kojo T 12 years ago

Is the tribalism , not the cause of your down fall? NPP is not a tribal party but every day we read this. Are you or are you not a tribal party?

Is the tribalism , not the cause of your down fall? NPP is not a tribal party but every day we read this. Are you or are you not a tribal party?
pink sheet president 12 years ago

They are diabolical deceivers and liers
of the highest degree !

They are diabolical deceivers and liers
of the highest degree !
ECOMINI 12 years ago

When the movie ends the CHARLIE will emerge. Dr. Bokor have patience final judgement is almost nigh.

When the movie ends the CHARLIE will emerge. Dr. Bokor have patience final judgement is almost nigh.
Ewusi 12 years ago

Common sense tells me that going to court is not pathetic and is far better than going to war.Such articles could encourage losers to take up arms,Some PHD holders are empty headed.

Common sense tells me that going to court is not pathetic and is far better than going to war.Such articles could encourage losers to take up arms,Some PHD holders are empty headed.
Cool J 12 years ago

It irks me to hear people say NPP could have chosen to fight their case in the streets instead of the court; these cowards who are only interested in gaining political power to steal our resources? Maybe Akuffo-Addict and his ...
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It irks me to hear people say NPP could have chosen to fight their case in the streets instead of the court; these cowards who are only interested in gaining political power to steal our resources? Maybe Akuffo-Addict and his gang should have tried a fight and then he would have seen where that his ugly calabash-like head would have been today. Arrant nonsense!
GOLD COAST MAN 12 years ago

Only fools think that the loser Nana Ado could have gone to war. Do you think Nana is a fool to begin a war that he could not fight? if he had that option he would have done it but he knows that that would have been the begin ...
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Only fools think that the loser Nana Ado could have gone to war. Do you think Nana is a fool to begin a war that he could not fight? if he had that option he would have done it but he knows that that would have been the beginning of the end of his town Abuakwa. He is aware of the fears and tight security in Ghana. He tried it but withdrew for fears.

TEIKO 12 years ago

I feel sick when i see an article written by this goon called bokor. How foolish could this imbecile be not to realise that he is living in his world of hatred and stupidity? TRIBALISTIC STUPID LITERATE FOOL. NO WONDER YOU FO ...
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I feel sick when i see an article written by this goon called bokor. How foolish could this imbecile be not to realise that he is living in his world of hatred and stupidity? TRIBALISTIC STUPID LITERATE FOOL. NO WONDER YOU FOLLOW NDC!!
CHE ANDREW 12 years ago

I can't laugh enough! So your brain is not good enough to prove what the writer has presented to be wrong? How pathetic and a real characteristic of an NPP member.

I can't laugh enough! So your brain is not good enough to prove what the writer has presented to be wrong? How pathetic and a real characteristic of an NPP member.
kos 12 years ago

Kwasea pannin it has hit u more

Kwasea pannin it has hit u more
kos 12 years ago

Kwasea pannin it has hit u more

Kwasea pannin it has hit u more
Kana Wu 12 years ago

Bokor exemplifies the old adage that there is a big difference between "Book sense and Home sense" What a useless academician!

Bokor exemplifies the old adage that there is a big difference between "Book sense and Home sense" What a useless academician!
DAN 12 years ago

You will find in usa that africa phd=toilet papers! Most schools in usa Technical or university will investigate the school you went to and make sure its not a 419 school..even then they will start you at the bottom...

You will find in usa that africa phd=toilet papers! Most schools in usa Technical or university will investigate the school you went to and make sure its not a 419 school..even then they will start you at the bottom...
DAN 12 years ago

NPP has nothing to loose, they are out of power its the ndc that has everything to lose including the money they have stolen for 5 years. Plus the chance of prison once npp get power!

NPP has nothing to loose, they are out of power its the ndc that has everything to lose including the money they have stolen for 5 years. Plus the chance of prison once npp get power!
DAN 12 years ago

idiot blackman

idiot blackman
concerned ghanaian 12 years ago

“The difference between votes for the first respondent and first petitioner (Akufo-Addo) was 325,863. This result should be taken in comparison to the outcome of votes the NPP and NDC presidential and Parliamentary candidat ...
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“The difference between votes for the first respondent and first petitioner (Akufo-Addo) was 325,863. This result should be taken in comparison to the outcome of votes the NPP and NDC presidential and Parliamentary candidates.
“The first Petitioner had 5,248,898 votes and his Parliamentary candidates had 5,248,882 which showed a difference of 16.
“For the first Respondent he garnered 5,574,761 as against 5,127, 641 by all his parliamentary candidates which showed a difference of 447,120. What accounted for this difference? It cannot be skirt and blouse phenomenon because the NDC are in the majority. The majority in Parliament secured 121,221 votes less than the minority. This is curious and undermines the one man one vote spelt out in the constitution.”

The above quote of Lawyer addisson completely ignores the fact that in the strong hold of the NPP such as Ashanti Region, the total votes cast in only 4 out of 11 constituencies in Kumasi alone was 222,953 as against all 3 constituencies in Tamale(189,082)and Bolgatanga(central and east)61,985.

This has been the most unfortunte and ignorant deduction and conclusions to have been made and drawn by a "leanered" counsel.
The Trucker 12 years ago

The NPP leadership have been very busy working hard to lose the next election- BY BEING DISTRACTED BY FOOLISH EGO-MASSAGING LITIGATION AND THEREBY NOT PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. Quite clearly the current leadership needs a kick ...
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The NPP leadership have been very busy working hard to lose the next election- BY BEING DISTRACTED BY FOOLISH EGO-MASSAGING LITIGATION AND THEREBY NOT PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. Quite clearly the current leadership needs a kick up their collective arse. They need to be shown the door before they take the whole NPP house down with them.It is now time to replace this clutch of losers with a more rejuvenated ,energized and totally focused leadership. Team Nana Addo have lost their way in a maze and haze of mindless idiotic litigation.

BOY KOFI 12 years ago

Before Addison gave his resignation address on the 7th Aug.,he made it clear for the petitioners to understand that they are asking the Supreme Court to do what no African country has done.Addison is in other words telling Na ...
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Before Addison gave his resignation address on the 7th Aug.,he made it clear for the petitioners to understand that they are asking the Supreme Court to do what no African country has done.Addison is in other words telling Nana Addo to forget about his petition.Addison proved his statement by citing different African countries where every electoral petition has failed.He mentioned Kenya, Zambia,Uganda and Nigeria where petitioners have failed in few instances because of "technicalities and numbers to effect the outcome".After given his resignation address,he also declared war if the petition is dismissed and I am sure the Supreme Court judges will ask him to clarify the declaration of violence.Addison added that "if the losers are not satified they may engaged in acts of violence".I think the judges must demand a proper interpretation of this declaration.Clearly,the judges were not impressed by his display of arrogance and insolence that is why they refused to give him even an extra second to complete his rubbish address.Thank you.
Allotey 12 years ago

I am scandalized that some Ghanaians still support and believe that Akuffo Addo will become president of Ghana. I took a close look at him during the last SC sitting. He is not feeling well. He has become very ugly. His face ...
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I am scandalized that some Ghanaians still support and believe that Akuffo Addo will become president of Ghana. I took a close look at him during the last SC sitting. He is not feeling well. He has become very ugly. His face is like swollen a bit. Please let the man go and find rest somewhere. He has missed out and many Ghanaians DONT want him. His history, manners, looks, character have all disqualified him. Let KYREMANTENG come and let us consider another face.
GENERAL DeGAULE 12 years ago

The NPP commentators so far have not or perhaps are incapable of presenting cogent counter arguments. Their refuge is no where else but in insults and threats of violence.

They not only lack credibility but civility. The ...
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The NPP commentators so far have not or perhaps are incapable of presenting cogent counter arguments. Their refuge is no where else but in insults and threats of violence.

They not only lack credibility but civility. The more forceful an argument hits them the more unintelligent and bellicose they become. The fact is the Supreme Court of Ghana will expose itself as the most incompetent and corrupt of courts if it finds in favour of the petitioners. Even a single minority judge ruling in favour of the client will expose him or her self as the most base and stupid of jurists.

And the reason is simple. The petitioners found all the time to make allegations and then withdraw them. They found all the time in the world to submit thousands of pink sheets and revise them by amending their petition and altering their numbers as the case proceeded. They found all the time to run through several permutations of votes to be annulled which went from 4 million plus in evidence to 3 million plus in submission.

BUT THEY DID NOT FIND THE TIME TO ASSEMBLE, UNEARTH OR STUDY THE SHORTFALL OF 2002 PINK SHEETS. They never ever gave a reason as to why those pink sheets were mysteriously not mentioned or accounted for.

They expected either of the respondents to find them so they could argue that the respondents pink sheets moreover confirms and substantiates the petitioners allegation of irregularities.

But whose responsibility was it to trawl through those 2002 pink sheets? It was most definitely the petitioners responsibility.

If you want to BE DECLARED PRESIDENT of the ENTIRE COUNTRY, you present a wholesome and a fulsome case. This petition ought to have been thrown out on the first day. That was the hope of the petitioners so that their supporters would have the excuse to go on a rampage. But everyone has played along and given them the rope to hang themselves.

Addison says if the Supreme Court does not stamp out FRAUD and CRIMINALITY it will provide people with the reason to resort to civil disobedience. Yes perhaps, but the Supreme Court has not been presented with a petition nor has it been argued in court that the case is about ELECTORAL FRAUD and CRIMINALITY.

It has been about mathematical computations based on a selected sample of pink sheets predicated on administrative matters where willful conduct or fraud has not been alleged or attested to.

It has been a bloody waste of time and tax payers money. Typical Ghanaian love for unproductive ventures.
Emmanuel Sarfo 12 years ago

Dr.Bokor, you are too good for these crooks.Addison has completely tarnished his reputations beyond redemption.Nobody will in the future hire him as a bail lawyer,let alone defend them against a thief.He has done a lot of dam ...
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Dr.Bokor, you are too good for these crooks.Addison has completely tarnished his reputations beyond redemption.Nobody will in the future hire him as a bail lawyer,let alone defend them against a thief.He has done a lot of damage to himself and will surely pay for it.We know of responsible NPP lawyers who have refused to indulge themselves in this shameful adventure,when they were initially contacted to take it up. Thank God Almighty that the case was broacasted live for all Ghanaians to see.Though we may be laymen as far as the intepretations of the law is concerned,nevertheless,we can to a certain extend, understand what has taken place and still is. Perhaps, Addison and his cohorts could succeed in misleading us with their jargons but to the learned judges,they could not.If I were Akufo Addo, I would just plead with the court to strike the case out.If still at this stage Akufo Addo and his family members still hold the view and believe that the court is going to make him president, then I am afraid, there is something seriously wrong with them. It would be far better for him,Nana to stop the case than to allow it to travel to its logical conclusion where the verdict has already gone against him. To Addison, this is not a matter of defending a goat thief.This is a constitutional matter.How sad, that he has done such a thing to himself!
NPP ACTIVIST. TEPA 12 years ago

Is this the NPP that we have fought and built up! I can not believe.It is like a magic. Where are the men from whom we took inspirations to join this party! Where are they? Where is former president Kufour and the rest? Tarza ...
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Is this the NPP that we have fought and built up! I can not believe.It is like a magic. Where are the men from whom we took inspirations to join this party! Where are they? Where is former president Kufour and the rest? Tarzan where are you? Why have you abadoned and left the party in the hands of these chaff? Are you people serious to win subsequent elections in this country? I don´t think so.You have worked and continue to work very hard to lose the next electons and the subsequent ones.When will you ever learn? Is politics not about numbers? Isn´t the recent events enough to tell you that numbers count more in winning elections no matter the background of those numbers? Is the Ashanti and the Eastern region enough to win you subsequent elections? Wake up NPP! You are destroying this great party and will live to regrete it. With the exception of the Ashanti/ Eastern region,no other regions wants to hear about you becasue of your arrogant behavious. Even in those two regions, the NDC has made a lot of gains, so the question is,who are your followers? I don´t think there is the need to stand for the next elections because you have already worked and positioned yourselves to lose it.What a bunch of people!
GENERAL DeGAULE 12 years ago

I will glady lend my effort and energy to a distinguished and decent leadership team which is brave enough to take over from these hijackers, so to develop well researched policies to mount a credible opposition and go on to ...
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I will glady lend my effort and energy to a distinguished and decent leadership team which is brave enough to take over from these hijackers, so to develop well researched policies to mount a credible opposition and go on to become a competent government.
Kobena 12 years ago

What a load of rubbish! Our education system is churning out educated idiots, people who cannot reason objectively away from tribal/political biases.

What is wrong with Addison’s reasoning? His figures show that almost ...
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What a load of rubbish! Our education system is churning out educated idiots, people who cannot reason objectively away from tribal/political biases.

What is wrong with Addison’s reasoning? His figures show that almost everyone who voted for an NPP parliamentary candidate also voted for their Presidential candidate. However, over 447,000 voters, mostly NDC die-hards, simply went in and voted for Mahama and went away? The total votes gained by the independent parliamentary candidates was less than 30,000. So even if we assume that ALL those who voted for independent parliamentary candidates voted for Mahama, the difference between his total votes and those of his parliamentary party candidates should not be as much as the 8% that was reported.

What is wrong with that? Meanwhile Asiedu Nketia has admitted foreign material, which could well be cassava sticks, kontomire, banana leaves and newspaper cuttings, all included in the final count! Afari-Gyan himself admitted that the printing of duplicates, triplicates and quadruplicates was completely unnecessary. That is where the fraudulent vote padding and the “voodoo mathematics of twenty seven zero, transpositional and clerical errors” were committed.

First, the petitioners did not have evidence. Now faced with overwhelming evidence of fraud and criminality on the part of Afari-Gyan and his minions, you are trying to wiggle your way out with the comics of technicalities!

In an election where the difference between the winner and the loser is less than 2.5%, you really believe that errors of over 30% do not matter? You are lucky that you live in a jurisdiction where engineers, surgeons, pharmacists and others do not gloss over errors of 30%!
Someone's Presidency 12 years ago

What if I decided that among the Presidential candidates I preferred Mahama. But for the Parliamentary Candidate, the NDC chap is from a tribe I do not like so I cast my vote for the guy from Ayariga's party even though he st ...
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What if I decided that among the Presidential candidates I preferred Mahama. But for the Parliamentary Candidate, the NDC chap is from a tribe I do not like so I cast my vote for the guy from Ayariga's party even though he stood no chance of winning and as a matter of fact did not win?

Isn't the fairest comparison between the total Presidential votes and the total Parliamentary votes the only means of detecting how many votes were spoilt, chewed or padded?
Kobena 12 years ago

What was the total number of votes garnered by those candidates? Most of those parties fielded candidates in less than 25% of the constituencies, and their votes were all lotto numbers. That is my point and Addison's.

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What was the total number of votes garnered by those candidates? Most of those parties fielded candidates in less than 25% of the constituencies, and their votes were all lotto numbers. That is my point and Addison's.

The clue is in the duplicate, triplicate and quadruplicate pink sheets. People simply took them and put in figures, and they were not even smart enough to cover their sorrry arses by completing the forms properly. That is exactly why they wouldn't sign them because, they could be traced.

If you have 8 candidaates and you even suspect that there could be more candidates (and the exact number of candidates was known LONG BEFORE the pink sheets were printed), why didn't they number the exras from 9-18 or whatever? Why did they use the same names 2, 3 and 4 times, when just one set was needed?

Our nation will only begin to move forward when those of us who have benefited from education begin to use what little we got from the classrooms and lecture theatres!
Someone's Presidency 12 years ago

What is the difference between the total number of Presidential votes and the total number of votes cast for MP's?
And the duplicates; did they all have the same polling station codes, names and polling agent signatures?Only ...
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What is the difference between the total number of Presidential votes and the total number of votes cast for MP's?
And the duplicates; did they all have the same polling station codes, names and polling agent signatures?Only asking

Kobena 12 years ago

I have not found the exact figure anywhere so far, but it can be worked out. However, the combined votes of the parliamentary candiates of all the minority parties was less than 1%, about than 150,000. Even all that still lea ...
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I have not found the exact figure anywhere so far, but it can be worked out. However, the combined votes of the parliamentary candiates of all the minority parties was less than 1%, about than 150,000. Even all that still leaves a shortfall of about 230,000.

The pinks sheets dupliates, triplicates and quadruplicates was the real mess, as Addison showed in his cross-examination of Afari-Gyan. There were cases where the polling station pink sheet number at a polling station in Tema was the same as one in Bolga or Tamale. That is why assigning exhibit codes was such a challenge for the petitioners. They had to produce over 800,000 sheets within 20 days.

The duplication was a clver ruse to hide the thievery, and it really required very carefu analses of the pink sheets to unearth the fraud. They were hoping that as happened in 1992, 1996 and 2004, the NPP would protest and then forget about it after a few days.

Whatever happens, taking the case to court has been a big eya opener for Ghanaians. We need to learn lesseons from it instead of looking at it with biased political prty lenses!
Egya Atta 12 years ago

Which party won the elections in 2004 and 2000?

Which party won the elections in 2004 and 2000?
TheSentinel 12 years ago

Crisp and succinct, Bokor. Keep slamming down your "AGUMAGA" on the mat! Need an ADODO to wield with it? Contact Xebieso.

The Seninel

Crisp and succinct, Bokor. Keep slamming down your "AGUMAGA" on the mat! Need an ADODO to wield with it? Contact Xebieso.

The Seninel
Jato.P 12 years ago

Mr. Addison's arguments on the difference NPP parliamentary figures being more than the NDC majority shows that the NPP is very poor in arithmetic as stated by Counsel for the 3rd respondents. For example, Ashanti region whic ...
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Mr. Addison's arguments on the difference NPP parliamentary figures being more than the NDC majority shows that the NPP is very poor in arithmetic as stated by Counsel for the 3rd respondents. For example, Ashanti region which is the stronghold of the NPP has the largest number of registered voters.An MP in Bantama for example can win with about 50,000 votes which may be about equal to or more than votes for Three constituencies in say Upper West region which has a lower population of voters of voters. He really shot himself and his party in the foot
NANA HAKIM 12 years ago

Hello Mr. & Mrs. Ghana,

All you need to do is to watch THE VERBAL PRESENTATION OF Philip Addison. Just contrast it with Tsitaka's. Addison's oral presentation was INCOHERENT, WITHOUT SENSE, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, PATHETIC, & BU ...
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Hello Mr. & Mrs. Ghana,

All you need to do is to watch THE VERBAL PRESENTATION OF Philip Addison. Just contrast it with Tsitaka's. Addison's oral presentation was INCOHERENT, WITHOUT SENSE, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, PATHETIC, & BULLSHIT! Henceforth, NPP, NPPERS and Nana Akufo Addo will look before they leap!
The Petitioners have no case and Dr. Bawumia himself succintly stated that "YOU AND I WERE NOT THERE" when their so called statutory violations took place at the polling several stations. All told, the petitioners had NO CASE in the first place! They have wasted the taxpayers money on their legally flawed case!

LONG LIVE AFRICA! GOD BLESS GHANA!! FORWARD EVER!!!

Nana Hakim is a practising Social Worker in AARHUS, Denmark. He received his Social Work training in Ghana, Germany and Canada. In 1979, he was PFP Representative at School of Social Work, Osu, Ghana.
Ekuma 12 years ago

Sand Castles. !! Shame unto the dwarf and his bewitched NPP led by the most foolish and idiotic GS ever seen in Ghana's political history. Nonsense

If u think i am insulting Sir John, sincerely cast ur mind to independe ...
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Sand Castles. !! Shame unto the dwarf and his bewitched NPP led by the most foolish and idiotic GS ever seen in Ghana's political history. Nonsense

If u think i am insulting Sir John, sincerely cast ur mind to independence to the present day and u will realise, i am right...

General Mosquito advised NPP that " if u go to the north and in the morning u say shear butter is cheap so u will build a house with shear bitter, the sun will shine at midday and u will realise ur folly" . Nonsense
Cool J 12 years ago

Talking of the ugly Sir John, we seem to have forgotten that moronic frog-like greedy Jake guy. The guy is so greedy the sight of him alone makes me sick. How greedy can a person be!

Talking of the ugly Sir John, we seem to have forgotten that moronic frog-like greedy Jake guy. The guy is so greedy the sight of him alone makes me sick. How greedy can a person be!
Okoe 12 years ago

If I were a Presidential candidate fearing that I might lose an election not bribe the presiding officers to not sign their respective documents and so challenge the outcome of an election as it may? By chance, I might be suc ...
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If I were a Presidential candidate fearing that I might lose an election not bribe the presiding officers to not sign their respective documents and so challenge the outcome of an election as it may? By chance, I might be successful in overturning the results through technicalities!!!
BOY KOFI 12 years ago

Addison has given up already by telling the court that they are "tasked to do what many African judges could not do".He gave example of many petitioners in Kenya,Nigeria,Uganda and Zambia who failed to overturn the declared r ...
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Addison has given up already by telling the court that they are "tasked to do what many African judges could not do".He gave example of many petitioners in Kenya,Nigeria,Uganda and Zambia who failed to overturn the declared results.Identically,Nana Addo finds himself on the disadvantage side that the message Addison is coveying.He also explained that the petitioners do fail because of "technicalities and numbers to effect the outcome".In linquistic philosophy,Addison has identified and analysed the petition to come to this conclusion of resignation.Let's wait for the judges to give their verdict.Thank you.
Whatever 12 years ago

After Addison comically implied that parliamentary results should match the presidential results, he fled from there and went on to quote a law qhich has been repealled. I mean this was the hieght of ignorance. I was stunned

After Addison comically implied that parliamentary results should match the presidential results, he fled from there and went on to quote a law qhich has been repealled. I mean this was the hieght of ignorance. I was stunned
Cool J 12 years ago

Let's be honest,before this stupid case by these NPP nation- wreckers, how many people had ever heard of a Philip Addison in the Ghanaian legal cycles as compared to Tsatsu and Tony who were and still are household names? I a ...
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Let's be honest,before this stupid case by these NPP nation- wreckers, how many people had ever heard of a Philip Addison in the Ghanaian legal cycles as compared to Tsatsu and Tony who were and still are household names? I am not a bit surprised by his poor performance; he simply does not have what it takes.

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