To guarantee a prompt resolution, the Chief Justice instructed both parties to submit their statements of claim within seven days.
The constitutional limits of parliamentary authority and the division of powers are both seriously called into question by this case. It emphasizes the judiciary’s responsibility to protect constitutional values while managing conflicts with the independence of Parliament.
According to poll findings released Monday by the Accra-based research firm Global InfoAnalytics, Mahama won 52% of the vote, while Bawumia came in second with 41.3%. The margin of error for the poll is 1.9%.
It was discovered that voters’ top concerns were infrastructure, employment, education, and the economy.
During his 2012–17 presidency, when he was criticized for power outages and unstable economies, Mahama made significant investments in infrastructure. Allegations of corruption also plagued his government, though Mahama was never named specifically.
As the nominee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the major opposition party, he is rerunning.
Former central banker and economist Bawumia is a candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), which faced the greatest economic crisis in Ghana’s history.
Plans to strengthen the economy and raise living standards have been put out by both candidates.
After years of overstretched borrowing, Ghana, the second-largest cocoa producer in the world, defaulted on the majority of its $30 billion external debt in 2022.
The International Monetary Fund gave Akufo-Addo’s government a $3 billion, three-year bailout in 2023, and it is currently completing the arduous process necessary to release the funds.
Because of the NPP’s economic track record, the Economist Intelligence Unit projected an NDC victory in October. That same month, Fitch Solutions released a similar prediction.
Northern Ghana, a former NDC stronghold where the NPP has been gaining ground, is where both Mahama and Bawumia are from.
Alidu Seidu, a political analyst at the University of Ghana, said that the two will likely run in a very tight election.
He stated that a run-off vote was likely and that the results were unpredictable.
In Ghana’s democratic history, no party has ever won more than two terms in a row.
