User:Enock4seth/2012 Ghanaian election petition

Election Petition

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Petitioners

• Nana Akufo-Addo 1st
• Mahamudu Bawumia 2nd
• Jacob Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey 3rd

Counsels for Petitioners

• Lead Counsel Gloria Akuffo

Respondents

• John Dramani Mahama1st
• Electoral Commission of Ghana2nd
• National Democratic Congress3rd

Star Witnesses

• Mahamudu Bawumia for Petitioners
• Asiedu Nketia for 1st and 3rd Respondent
• Kwadwo Afari-Gyan for 2nd Respondents

Justices(panel)

• William A. Atuguba President
• Ms. Sophia A. B. Akuffo
• Mrs Sophia Ophilia Adjeibea Adinyira
• Jones Mawulom Dotse
• Paul Baffoe-Bonnie
• Sule N. Gbadegbe
• Vida Akoto-Bamfo
• Anin Yeboah
• Julius Ansah

Contempt

Oral's Guidelines

Here's how to start in my opinion: give a backgrounder about the elections, the major parties that contested, the background of incumbent and wanna be presidents, their defendants, the nature of the case.

State the laws used to build the case and the responses of the international community and especially neighboring Africa.

Ultimately, don't forget to also note two major historic precedences... 1) this election was triggered because for the 1st time ever, a seating president died and 2) this was the 1st time ever a case like this has ever been recorded in the country's electoral history and courts.