39 therefore, improper for a judge to comment on matters that are before him or that may come before him for review or other adjudication. WHEREFORE, and in view of the foregoing, Appellants respectfully pray the Honorable Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the NEC, Cllr. Jerome Korkoya, to recuse himself from hearing the Appellants' Appeal, and that the Board of Commissioners grants unto the Appellants such other relief as the law provides. Respectfully submitted the above named Appellants by and thru their Legal Counsel: FOR 1ST APPELLANTS: N. Oswald Tweh Powo C. Hilton, Jr. COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Morris A. Kaba Kuku Y. Dorbor ATTORNEY-AT-LAW COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW FOR 2ND APPELLANTS: H. Varney G. Sherman Benedict F. Sannoh COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW J. Laveli Supuwood Samuel Kofi Wood, II COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW ATTORNEY-AT-LAW DATED NOVEMBER 21, 2017” We note from the motion to recuse filed against the Chairman of NEC and of the Board of Commissioners before whom the appeal from the CDHO was venued, that the Chairman had made statements and utterances which clearly showed and demonstrated that he could not render an impartial judgment in the matter since he had already taken a position on the claims and the allegations made by the appellants in their complaints even as the matter was still pending before the CDHO for investigation and not yet before the Board on appeal. The motion was resisted by the NEC on a number of grounds, which we believe there is need to equally reference as we have done with the motion. Here, therefore is how the NEC, on the Minutes of the Investigation before the CDHO, resisted the motion: “At this stage, Counsel for Respondent says he has received the Motion to Recuse, served on yesterday evening and in the interest of time we respectfully request the Board to allow him spread his resistance on the minutes. And respectfully submits. Counsel for respondent in the above entitled proceedings respectfully request the Board to deny and dismiss the motion to recuse for the following factual and legal reasons to wit:1. That the said motion is filed in bad faith intended the delay and baffle these proceedings; 2. That the New Elections Law Section 2.10(a), (b) (Duties of Chairman and CoChairman) says "that, the Chairman shall be the official head and Spokesman of the Commission; He shall provide over all meetings and hearings of