The lawyer for the Parliamentary Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Klottey Korle constituency, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, has suggested that the recent suit filed against his client by the current MP Nii Armah Ashittey was done in retaliation because he lost the primary.
Nii Armah Ashittey and Nii John Coleman have filed a joint suit at an Accra High Court against the Electoral Commission and Zanetor challenging her eligibility to contest for a parliamentary seat.
[contextly_sidebar id=”dugVhTZFVjhzFx4GzUX83IPkeNiIIQzd”]Questions were raised when Zanetor was unable to vote in the primary because her name was not found in the register used in the elections.
The plaintiffs argue that Zanetor’s win in the primary on November 21, 2015, which they also contested, is not valid as she is not a registered voter.
However, according to Godwin Tamakloe, Nii Armah Ashittey and Nii John Coleman did not raise objections to the candidature of Zanetor before she won the primary in November.
“My client has always believed that she won a free and fair election, she’s more than qualified, she has been qualified by the vetting committee of the NDC,” he said on Eyewitness News on Friday.
“There has never been any petition from Nii Armah or John Coleman challenging her eligibility. If the two gentlemen had won the election against her, would they be in court? In law there’s something called good faith, you have to do things right ”
An Accra High Court, earlier in January, dismissed a case filed by some members of the NDC in the constituency seeking to annul the results of the parliamentary primary.
Godwin Tamakloe believes that the crusade against his client by the incumbent MP, who will to be unseated at the polls in November would be as unsuccessful as the one before it, as her win in the polls was “free and fair.”
“We want the proper thing to be done. Once it is, we will make ourselves available to the court,” he stated.
“She was qualified to contest the primary and won against the incumbent hands down”
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By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana