A member of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Onsy Nathan Kwame Nkrumah, has sued the party for preventing him from filing to contest as a flagbearer aspirant ahead off Saturday’s congress.
[contextly_sidebar id=”hxPXaBAAz1xa2AZE0aX1KIGdqOZBLlgk”]He is seeking an injunction to restrain the party from holding its scheduled congress on Saturday to elect a flagbearer.
Onsy Nkrumah picked up nomination forms to contest for the CPP presidential ticket but could not file before the deadline because he reportedly did not meet the requirements for the race at the close of nominations on Monday 11th January, 2016.
He is praying the court to order the party to re-instate him in the race.
In his statement of claim to the Human Rights Division of the High Court, he alleges that he was “manhandled and was only lucky that some good Samaritans were around to whisk him away from the hands from the hands of the [CPP] who had planned to block his attempt at filling his nominations forms.”
There has been disagreement between Samia Nkrumah, former Chairperson of the CPP and one of the presidential aspirant over the paternity of Onsy.
Samia has cast doubt about Onsy’s claim that he is also the son of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Onsy, who has insisted he is Dr. Nkrumah’s son, believes Samia may have orchestrated his disqualification from the race.
Onsy is seeking the following reliefs
- An order for a declaration that the inability of the plaintiff to file his presidential nomination forms was wrongly caused by the defendant.
- An order to compel the defendant to accept the plaintiff’s nomination fee and to allow him contest the presidential primaries at the extended date beyond six weeks from the filing of nominations.
- An order to set aside the outcome of the presidential congress, slated for the 29 and 30 of January 2016 on grounds that it is in breach of the party’s constitution
- General damages for breach of the plaintiff’s right in the form of wrongfully aborting his desire to file his nomination forms and cost including legal fees.
The Court has set February 10, 2016 to hear arguments by both parties.
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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