Lawyers of President Akufo Addo has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss former President John Mahama’s request to put the election petition hearing on hold.

According to documents signed by one of the lawyers, Kwaku Asirifi, "there is no merit whatsoever in the application”

"In the event, this Honourable Court ought to dismiss the application as unmeritorious and calculated to stall the hearing of a petition that he himself has initiated"

Read the full statement below