JUDGMENT
TWUMASI, JA
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra delivered on 15th December, 1997 in favour of the respondent herein on an application by the latter for certain reliefs in the nature of prerogative orders, to be precise for the orders of certiorari and mandamus directed against the Electoral Commission. The circumstances that led to the institution of the proceedings before the High Court, as I was able to cull from the introductory parts of the written statements of Counsel on both sides could be briefly related. In the run-up of the Presidential and Parliamentary elections held on 7th December 1996, the second since the restoration of constitutional and multi-party administration in this country in the post 31st December 1981 revolutionary era, the parties in this case, each representing his political party contested the elections to wrest the parliamentary seat of the Ayawaso-West-Wuogon constituency of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Unlike other …