Challenge to Mahama's presidency - Supreme Court rules on two applications

The Supreme Court has by a unanimous decision granted the request of respondents to to the NPP election petition, for further and better particulars of the petition.

The court said it was only proper that the respondents to the petition filed by three leaders of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were told the nature of the claims against them.

The EC and President Mahama had prayed the court to order the petitioners to furnish them with "further and better particulars" with respect to the names and codes of 4,709 polling stations, constituencies and regions where alleged electoral irregularities took place.

The petitioners, were however, of the view that the court should not allow the EC to employ an application for further and better particulars to compel them to disclose the nature of evidence they intended to lead during the trial.

The court, has also by a unanimous decision, granted the petitioners’ application to direct the EC to provide them with detail records of persons abroad who voted in the elections.

They had requesting the EC to provide them with details of the names and addresses of persons who were registered overseas and the mode and manner by which those persons were registered.