“In my honest and candid opinion, once the opportunity to reopen his case and to issue the subpoena has been denied him, his case in my honest opinion has suffered a fatal blow, and so there will be no point in continuing. He has to withdraw the case.” This was the opinion of a legal practitioner Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo who was speaking on Asaase Breakfast Show monitored by Apexnewsgh.com.
His advice to former President Mahama came as a result of the court ruling against an application by lawyers of the petitioner to reopen their case and subpoena EC chairperson Jean Mensah for cross examination.
Meanwhile, responding to the ruling, Mr. Addo stated that the closure of the case by the petitioner’s lawyers affected the progress of their case.
“The petitioner should not have relied on one of the affidavits that was sworn that he would have the opportunity to cross examine EC chair. He should have insisted and asked for the subpoena to be issued before he closed his case, that seems to have been a fatal blow to his case because evidence can be obtained from cross-examination”. He stressed
