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National Youth Organizer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Lawyer Henry Nana Boakye says the lead Counsel for former President John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 election petition, Mr Tsatsu Tsikata is not helping the case of the petitioner.

According to him, he would have fired Mr Tsatsu Tsikata as the lead Counsel if he was in the shoes of the petitioner, claiming that the renowned private legal practitioner is destroying the case for Mr John Dramani Mahama with his constant verbal attacks on the judges.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, lawyer Nana Boakye maintained that Mr Tsatsu Tsikata’s abusive words on the Justices of the Supreme Court presiding over the 2020 election petition is making it hard for the petitioner to appeal to the discretional powers of the Judges of the Supreme Court.

“I have said that if I were former President Mahama and Tsatsu was my lawyer, I would have fired him a long time, because the same judges presiding over your petition, you are always fighting them . . . it is their case but if it were to be me, I would have fired him; he is destroying the case for John Mahama,” he opined.

He, however, told Mr Tsatsu Tsikata to be mindful that inasmuch as there are laws in court, the judges also have descretional powers to pass judgment over any case per their understanding of what is before them.

He was of the view that no lawyer can fight Judges as they have the discretionally powers to interpret the law in the court differently from the interpretation that might emanate from lawyers; hence, they are lords over every case.

“If the judges are the lords over your case and you are showing arrogant posture because you are the don and probably older and more knowledgeable in the law than the judges on the case, then it is up to John Mahama and the NDC to keep him as their lead Counsel. I would have fired him if I were Mahama,” he posited.