Tsatsu Tsikata criticizes Supreme Court's handling of 2020 election petition
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Legal practitioner Tsatsu Tsikata has voiced his disapproval of the Supreme Court panel that presided over the 2020 presidential election petition, chaired by then Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah. Speaking at an event in his honor at the University of Professional Studies, Accra UPSA on April 15, 2026, Tsikata stated that the court did not permit the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, to provide testimony, despite her role in overseeing the elections. He argued that questioning Jean Mensa was necessary due to inconsistencies in the declared final results for the presidential election, attributing the court's nickname "unanimous FC" to this failure. Tsikata highlighted that the figures announced by the Electoral Commission's chairperson were later corrected by a press release from the Commission's Public Relations Officer, and subsequent figures presented in response to the petition also differed. He noted that Jean Mensa, despite having submitted an affidavit verifying the Electoral Commission's answer, did not testify to present authoritative final figures or explain the changing numbers. Tsikata concluded that, to date, the exact figures for the 2020 presidential election remain unknown to Ghanaians because the Supreme Court "protected" Jean Mensa, preventing her from accounting to the people of Ghana.
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