Supreme Court rejects Asokwa pink sheet

The Supreme Court hearing the ongoing election petition has sustained an objection raised against the tendering in of a pink sheet which the respondents said confirms their claim of bad faith as raised in their affidavits and during the cross examination of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, star witness of the petitioners.

The respondents were using the pink sheet from Asokwa constituency in the Ashanti Region to buttress claims that irregularities, as pleaded by the petitioners, also occurred in the stronghold of the petitioners but results from there were ignored.

Counsel for the third respondent, who is also examining Mr Asiedu Nketia on behalf of the first respondent, Tsatsu Tsikata asked the witness to first identify the document, which he did.

His question bothering on the relevance of the document to the case was overruled by the court after it was objected to by the lead counsel for the petitioners Philip Addison.

Nevertheless, Mr Tsikata decided to tender in the document, which was again objected to by Mr Addiso.

After a few minutes of deliberation, the court sustained the object.

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