Accra High Court hearing on the disqualification of PPP Presidential candidate Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom threw up drama after lawyer for Nduom barked orders at the EC's counsel.

Nii Ayikoi Otoo felt the need to re-echo the presiding judge's order to Thaddeus Sory to sit down after Ayikoi Otoo had caught the judge's attention and allowed to speak.

'Sit down, you are my junior' Joy FM court reporter Joseph Ackah-Blay reported Ayikoi Otoo as saying.

Thaddeus Sory shot back, saying he was not a rookie in court to be given such orders by the former Attorney-General.

"My lord draw his attention to the fact that so long as I stand here, I am not his junior. It is those who carry his books that he can describe as juniors" he reportedly responded.

But the judge repeated the orders to him to respect courtroom practices and sit down once his senior was on his feet.

Counsel for Electoral Commission Thaddeus Sory challenged the procedure by which the PPP Presidential candidate Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom is fighting his disqualification.

He insisted on Day two of the High Court hearing that Nii Ayikoi Otoo, counsel for Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom should have filed a petition and not a certiorari or writ.

The EC's counsel launched the attack on procedure minutes into the oral submission of Nii Ayikoi Otoo as he talked about reliefs his client is seeking from the court.

Thaddeus Sory raised preliminary objections which he wanted Ayikoi Otoo to address. "There is a procedure that must be followed,they must come by a petition not review", he said.

But counsel for Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom replied that Thaddeus Sory has misunderstood the CI, the law governing elections.

"We cannot come by a petition when there has not been an election," he pointed out.

He argues that a plaintiff comes by a petition when there has been an election but their application is simply seeking a court order, quashing the EC's decision.