Private legal practitioner, Justice Abdulai, has commented on the dismissal of his review application of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the right of Deputy Speakers to vote in Parliament.
The review application filed by Justice Abdulai was dismissed on Tuesday April 26 on grounds that it was “unmeritorious”.
In an interview with press men at the Supreme Court after the dismissal of his review application, Justice Abdulai explained that he didn’t want a situation where posterity will question the Minority as to why they didn’t take the small window of opportunity that was available to us for a possible review of the decision of the of the Supreme Court on the 9th of March.
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“I think we have to move on as a nation. What I didn’t want was the situation where posterity will question us as to why we didn’t take this small window of opportunity that was available to us for a possible review of the decision of the of the Supreme Court on the 9th of March.
“I think posterity will judge our call in the positive light that we did everything we ought to have done to get the sort of judgement that we needed but this is what the Supreme Court says and we all have to live by that,” Justice Abdulai told press men.
Justice Abdulai asked the Supreme Court to pronounce as unconstitutional, Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu’s action of counting himself for the purposes of quorum.
This decision was after the November 30, 2021 clash between Speaker Bagbin and his First Deputy after the latter overturned an earlier vote of the House rejecting Government’s 2022 Budget.
He stated that in the context of Articles 102 and 104 of the 1992 Constitution that the Deputy Speaker was not permitted to count himself for the purposes of quorum, since he had neither an original nor a casting vote as Speaker presiding.
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