Following High Court Judge Maneul Bart-Plange Brew’s order for the Kpandai Parliamentary election rerun, private legal practitioner Justice Abdulai has stated that such a decision can only be made when the evidence is so significant that it threatens the integrity of the entire election.
Speaking on Joy News, he explained that if the evidence laid before the court had not been substantial enough to cast doubt on the overall results, the logical step would have been to rerun only the 41 polling stations that were challenged.
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“For a judge to make a determination for the entire election to be rerun, the evidence and the conclusion that we drew ought to have been so grave that it affects the integrity of the entire election. Otherwise, the only obvious choice is to rerun the very polling stations that were questioned. That should be the straightforward answer,” he said.
Abdulai added that a full rerun becomes justified only if the irregularities from the 41 stations are serious enough to affect the broader outcome.
“If those 41 polling stations put together were capable of obstructing the integrity of the entire election, then obviously the whole rerun would be the ideal thing to do,” he noted.
Judge Bart-Plange Brew, in his ruling, said the scale of the irregularities uncovered in the pink sheets made it impossible to limit the issue to the contested stations alone.
He said both sides presented evidence of numerical inconsistencies, conflicting tallies, illegible entries, unexplained cancellations and discrepancies between the EC’s pink sheets and the petitioner’s copies, problems he said “went to the roots of the results.”
The judgment has been criticised by the NPP, with the minority in parliament questioning how a petition about 41 polling stations resulted in a rerun of 150 polling stations.
In his written judgment, the judge pointed out that even within the 41 pink sheets tendered, several entries showed mismatches that could not be ignored.
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Kpandai re-run: For a judge to order a re-run, the evidence and its implications must be so substantial that they undermine the integrity of the entire election – Justice Abdulai, Private Legal Practitioner. #JoyNews #PMExpress pic.twitter.com/iX4VAxzxSa
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