CJ adjourns EC Chair's suit against Vormawor and Co to reconstitute panel
According to the panel presided over by the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, there will be the need to reconstitute the panel since she has automatically become the second defendant by virtue of her position
The Supreme Court has adjourned sine die, a case by the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensa, and her deputies against #FixTheCountry Convenor, Oliver Barker Vormawor, and two others.
According to the panel presided over by the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, there will be the need to reconstitute the panel since she has automatically become the second defendant by virtue of her position.
In view of the above, the Chief Justice noted that she is not permitted by law to preside on the same and thus had to adjourn for the recomposition of the panel.
When the case was called today, the EC chair was not in court but was represented by her two Deputies; Mr Bossman Asare and Mr Samuel Tettey.
The EC boss and her two deputies, in January 2022, filed a suit against Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the Chief Justice, and the Attorney General at the apex court to stop an ongoing impeachment process.
The suit stemmed from a petition submitted by #FixTheCountry Movement to President Akufo-Addo invoking the constitutional procedure for the removal of the EC Chair and her deputies over their handling of the SALL issue.
In their petition, the group contended that the EC Chair and her Deputies per their conduct intentionally denied the people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, and Likpe (SALL) the right to vote in the 2020 elections.
They, therefore, held in the light of the above that the conduct of the EC bosses meets the threshold of stated misbehavior and or incompetence as defined under Article 146 of the Constitution 1992 and thus should be removed.
But in their writ at the Supreme Court, the EC officials contended that Oliver Vormawor had published the content of the petition seeking their removal in the public domain, contrary to Article 146(8) of the 1992 Constitution which states that: "All proceedings under this Article shall be held in camera, and the justice or chairman against whom the petition is made is entitled to be heard in his defence by himself or by a lawyer or other expert of his choice."
