National Communications Officer and a member of the legal team of former President John Mahama has asked members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to 'give up'.
Speaking after a Supreme Court ruling which dismissed Mr Mahama's application for a review of the Supreme Court's decision to reopen his case, Sammy Gyamfi said, “we want to tell them that we understand and appreciate your frustrations. We understand and appreciate that and we are telling you don’t give up. We are not doing this for nothing. We know what we are doing and we are dong this because of the love we have for Ghana, particularly that of the Petitioner . . ”.
His comment comes on the back of calls from some members of the party to withdraw the 2020 election petition since the Supreme Court has thrown out several of their applications.
However, Sammy Gyamfi said in as much as their 'frustrations' are understandable, there is the need to be patient.
“Those who are crestfallen, those who are discouraged and sometimes call us, worried and disturbed saying, ‘Why don’t you withdraw this matter?’, ‘You shouldn’t even go to court’ . . . Let us all be patient with the legal team as we go through the process. We are not abusing the court processes like some are suggesting and we have not defied the orders of the court,” he noted.
Listen to him in the video below
Supreme Court Decision
A nine-member panel of Supreme Court (SC) Judges has unanimously dismissed a review application filed by the petitioner in the 2020 election petition, John Mahama.
Mr Mahama filed an application for review of the Supreme Court’s ruling that prevented him from reopening his case.
According to the motion, the SC made fundamental errors of law, including the ruling being per incuriam of constitutional provisions, statutes, and previous decisions of the Supreme Court.
“I am advised by counsel and verily believe the court made fundamental errors of law including the ruling being per incuriam of constitutional provisions, statutes and previous decisions of the Supreme Court...Among these errors, I am advised by counsel and verily believe is an error whereby the courts subordinates a provision in the Evidence Act to a rule in subsidiary legislation by the Rules of Court Committee,” portions of the application read.
However, a ruling read by Chief Justice Anin Yeboah, Monday said the application was not based on law and that review discretion is not a try on and neither should it be asked on emotional grounds.
"We dismiss the instant application as being wholly without merit," he said.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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SMALL BOY SAMMY GYAMFUO SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT FIGHT AGAINST TRUTH AND NATURAL ORDER AND WIN. HITLER HAD AGENDA TO FIGHT TO CHANGE THAT. HE APPEARED TO BE WINNING, BUT HE COULD NOT. SAMMY ON MONDAY, 2/22/21 QUOTED DR. JB DANQUAH TO STATE THAT TRUTH AND NATURAL ORDER CANNOT BE DEFEATED. THAT IS VERY TRUE. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT NDC IS DOING NOW. THEY ARE DOING JUST EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. NKRUMAH WAS FIGHTING HARD TO CHANGE THE NATURAL ORDER FOR HIS NEW POLITICAL IDEOLODY. IT DID NOT WORK. NOTHING TANGIBLE IS LEFT OF IT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS HERITAGE. YOUR OWN NDC FOUNDER, JJ ALSO INTRODUCED HIS HOUSE CLEANING POLITICS IN ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO TURN BACK THE POLITICAL DIRECTION OF THE NATION. THOSE HE FEARED TO OPPOSE HIM WERE MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. AT THE END HE WAS ABANDONED AND LEFT TO ROT. HE WAS REJECTED BY THOSE WHO APPEARED TO SUPPORT HIM. SOME NOW SEE HIM TO BE MANIPULATIVE FOR HIS OWN ADVANTAGE. THEY REFUSED TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO HIS ANTICS. SAMMY AND HIS NDC 3 SHOULD KNOW THAT IT HAS TAKEN CENTURIES TO BUILT THE INSTITUTIONS WE HAVE IN GHANA. IT WILL BE VERY STUPIIIIIIIIIID OF HIM TO THINK THAT HE IS BETTER AND CAPABLE TO ATTACK THEM AND SUCCEED. HE WILL BE CRASHED, AND CUT TO HIS SIZE. AS HE JUMPS FROM ONE MICROPHONES TO ANOTHER HE SHOULD REALIZE THAT MAJORITY OF GHANAIANS, THOUGH SILENT, UNDERSTAND THE TRUE DEVELOPMENT AT THE SC. HE CAN BE UNMEASURED AND UNCULTURED BUT SHOULD NOT DARE TO CROSS THE LINE. HE SHOULD KNOW THAT HE IS NOT BETTER THAN MRS. OPPONG BREW, AYINI, ASSIEDU. ELVIS, OTUKONO, FIIFI KWETEY, TONY AIDOO, KOBY ACHEAMPONG, HANAW BISIW, AND AMA BAYIWA DOE AGYEMANG KONADU AND MANY OTHER ACTORS OF NDC, THE PARTY THAT CONSUMES ITS OWN. IT IS ROOTED IN VIOLENCE TO LACK CIVILITY. IT ATTACKS NATURAL ORDER FOR HUMAN CIVILIZATION. IT PRODUCES VILLAINS AS CHAMPIONS AND WHEN THEIR ***barred word*** BECOMES WELL EXPOSED THEY ABANDON THEM TO SUFFER THEIR OWN INSANITY FOR THEIR TOTAL FLOP. SAMMY ***barred word*** SHOULD LEARN FROM OTUKONOR TWOOOBOIIII, DJ MA YEN NWOM. AND GET TO BE SMART.
how do you know what you're doing when you told your supporters that Mahama won the elections and then you go to court and say that nobody won? Again, you went to court without any evidence and you still have been so well accommodated and tolerated by the Court beyond imagination. You still come out to peddle lies to your supporters that you know what you're doing??? please give us a break. You can't ***barred word*** Ghanaians for too long....
Sammy ***barred word*** lies and lies and lies non stop. We all saw what happened on live TV so you can’t convince any level headed Ghanaian with your lies. A complete waste of time.
A party without a defined tradition has no well-guided principles which reflect on its' core values and aspirations. Theirs, is bullying the systems into winning political power. And the political power so attained is characterized by rampant greed and corruption. That is for me the NDC of Ghana today, rooted from the PNDC era. Then, the NDC can just not fathom how NPP can genuinely win the election without cheating on the electoral systems. Mr. Tsikata, an astute lawyer and professor of the law, buys into that perception and stake his reputation on such a baseless petition. That element of PNDC in him is phenomenally displayed in the Supreme Court as counsellor of the petitioner. The question then is, what can that young man Sammy Gyamfi and many others learn from him?
False hope! You know from day one that your case is dead on arrival. Massa! for once ka nokore kakra wai! You will one day account to your maker of all the lies you are peddling around. You and JDM think NDC party is for you. We are waiting for the SC rulling and if it did not go down well with NDC you and your JDM will see your smoothness level