Renowned legal practitioner Tsatsu Tsikata has called out the Supreme Court panel that heard the 2020 presidential election petition, which was chaired by the then Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah.
Tsatsu Tsikata, who expressed his displeasure while addressing the gathering at the Honorific Lecture and Award ceremony, held in his honour by the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) on April 15, 2026, said the court did not allow the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, to present testimony, even though she presided over the elections.
He asserted that the court should have allowed the questioning of Jean Mensa because of the many inconsistencies in the final results she declared for the presidential election, adding that their failure to do so was what got them the name “unanimous FC.”
“I found it sad during the election petition following the December 2020 presidential election that the expression unanimous FC became the name of our Supreme Court. The challenge to the declaration of results formally announced on 8 June, 2020, by the chairperson of the Electoral Commission required a fair and just adjudication. It was not in dispute that the figures of the outcome of the election that were announced by the chairperson of the Electoral Commission were corrected in a press release by the Public Relations Officer of the Electoral Commission.
“Subsequently, the figures that were presented in response to the petition by the Electoral Commission were also different from what the chairperson had announced. The constitutionally designated returning officer, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, even though she had deposed to an affidavit verifying the answer of the Electoral Commission and was supposed to testify, did not testify to present the authoritative final figures, much less explain the ever-changing figures from the Commission,” he said.
He further indicated that, to date, the people of Ghana don’t know the exact figures for the 2020 presidential election because the Supreme Court “protected” Jean Mensa.
“To this day, therefore, the country has no definitive accounting for the 2020 presidential election. In the face of evidence of a failure even to be in attendance at the process in the coalition centre at the EC head office, the declaration of results that she made was even more problematic. Unanimous FC was a verdict of the people on the proceedings in the Supreme Court, which shielded the returning officer from accounting to the people of Ghana,” he said.
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