NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL & ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND MARK TAKYI-BANSON V. ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA & THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

JUDGMENT

PROF. KOTEY, JSC:-

1. Introduction

On 25th June 2020, we gave judgment in these consolidated suits but deferred our reasons, which we now give. 

We unanimously dismissed the principal reliefs of the plaintiffs in the two consolidated suits. We denied the claims of the plaintiffs for a declaration of unconstitutionality regarding the non-inclusion of the current voter identification card and birth certificate for the purpose of identification of a person who applies for registration as a voter in the voter registration process to be undertaken by the Electoral Commission (2nd Defendant). We also dismissed the reliefs of the plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the compilation of a new register of voters by the Electoral Commission. We finally upheld the constitutionality of the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 (C.I.126) and ordered all stakeholders and Ghanaian eligible voters to comply with the terms thereof. 

We partly granted two…