The claim by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that there was
“Systematic Stealing” at last Friday’s presidential and
parliamentary elections, must have forced Chief Justice Georgina T.
Wood, to establish two public complaints secretariats in
anticipation of post-2012 election petitions.
One of the units is interestingly located in the Chief
Justice’s Secretariat with the other unit at the Office of the
Chief Registrar-General.
This was announced in a press release signed by Justice Alex
B. Poku-Acheampong, Judicial Secretary and copied to the Ghana News
Agency (GNA).
The Chief Justice’s move is raising suspicion among some
people. The notice says that the two secretariats will receive and
file complainants and queries from the public on pending election
petitions before the courts after December 7 general elections
adding the purpose of the arrangements are to ensure that
post-elections petitions placed before the courts are determined in
a timely fashion.
The Herald is meanwhile informed that NPP bigwigs and Nana
Addo, who is yet to concede defeat three days after the declaration
of the results, are having a meeting today to petition the chief
justice on its claims of “Systematic Stealing” at the
election.
The announcement by the Judicial Service is raising suspicion
within government, the ruling NDC and ordinary Ghanaians who voted
for John Mahama as opposed to Nana Addo.
The suspicion within the government and the NDC is as a
result of the 2008, incident involving Lawyer Atta Akyea a cousin
of the NPP flag bearer. Many are asking whether the chief justice
is up to mar the beauty of last Friday’s polls.
