The member of Parliament for Bolgatanga-East, Dr Dominic Ayine has been summoned before the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council for condemning the Supreme Court for its ruling on the 2020 election petition by the New Democratic Congress.
Dr Dominic Ayine criticised the Supreme Court of Ghana over its failure to apply the rules of procedure and the repeated dismissal of applications of the petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition.
He opined that the Petition casts doubt on the open-mindedness and commitment of the Court to dispensing justice when he was Speaking last month at a CDD-Ghana Roundtable Discussion on ‘Presidential Election Petitions and their Impact on Africa’s Democracy.’
“I expected the Supreme Court to apply faithfully the rules of procedure to prove the petitioner’s case and so on. What we saw was a Supreme Court that was constantly putting hurdles in the way of the petitioner in terms of adducing evidence to prove the petitioner’s case…I am sure for ordinary Ghanaians or the electorate generally, the fact that the Supreme Court judges, all nine of them, on almost every application was unanimous in rejecting and dismissing the case of the petitioner was very telling in terms of the open-mindedness or otherwise of the Justices as far the petition was concerned and for me as a lawyer” he asserted.
Following his comments on the Supreme Court, the General Legal Council, which is the regulatory body of the legal profession in Ghana, has hauled him to answer questions at the disciplinary committee as reported by Mynewsgh.com
