The Supreme Court will on June 23, 2020, provide its judgment in a case in which the NDCs’ situation challenging the exclusion of the existing citizen ID cards from the list of documents needed to sign up to vote in the 2020 basic elections.
The Supreme Court today, Thursday listened to legal arguments from the NDC, the Deputy Attorney General, and the Electoral Commission.
NDC had actually said that the Court by its very own decision had certified the existing voter ID as evidence of citizenship as well as it is as a result at a loss regarding why the EC is seeking to go contrary to that decision much more so when the Court’s decision has not been overturned.
The opposition had prayed the court to declare the Electoral Payment’s decision to assemble a brand-new citizens’ register for the 2020 general political elections as canceled out.
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It has also asked the court to buy the EC to consist of the existing citizens’ ID card to the list of identification documents needed to sign up to vote aside from the Ghana card and also a passport.
Yet in supreme court, today, June 11, 2020, the NDC, dropped its instance examining the power of the Electoral Payment to assemble a brand-new citizens’ register.
It nevertheless made the exclusion of the existing citizen ID from the recognition needs its core situation.
This follows an instruction from the High court courts for the event to make a choice on which of their two reliefs they desired a decision on.
The legal representative for the NDC, Godwin Tamakloe, that was given the choice while on his feet in court selected a judgment on using the old citizen ID.
