{"id":147943,"date":"2015-09-01T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=147943"},"modified":"2015-09-01T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:49:40","slug":"court-stops-assembly-elections-at-akuse-other-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=147943","title":{"rendered":"Court stops assembly elections at Akuse, other areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A High Court in Koforidua has placed an injunction on the Akuse-Natriku <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/03\/ec-spends-gh%C2%A2-397million-on-district-assembly-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">district assembly election<\/a>s.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injunction was granted following an application by Kloma Gbi (a Krobo youth group) and Mr. Sakitey Asare, a concerned citizen of the area, who jointly contested the placement of the Akuse-Natriku electoral area under the Shai Osudoku district of the Greater Accra Region, instead of the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;yBWBYmDgSBmlJ7edzfnhAX2UItRhkToU&#8221;]The spokesperson for the youth group, Gloria Larkuor, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> they are excited about the ruling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe took the legal process and they have granted the injunction so we have served the EC and the Attorney-General and the Returning Officer to Dodowa has also been served. Therefore, once the injunction has been placed and the law is to take it&#8217;s course, then it means they would have to hold on for the legal processes to take place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The elections have also been put on hold in a few other areas following disagreements that have landed in court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The District Level and Unit Committee elections took off on Tuesday September 1, across the country, with some <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0regional correspondents already confirming the usual low turnout that characterizes the polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">18,885 candidates are contesting the District Assembly Elections, with 43,585 contesting in the Unit Committee elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, over 40,000 security personnel from the Police, Prisons, and Fire and Immigration services have been deployed to ensure order at all polling stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/ citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court in Koforidua has placed an injunction on the Akuse-Natriku district assembly elections. The injunction was granted following an application by Kloma Gbi (a Krobo youth group) and Mr. Sakitey Asare, a concerned citizen of the area, who jointly contested the placement of the Akuse-Natriku electoral area under the Shai Osudoku district of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":112887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-147943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}