The Supreme Court has dismissed a case filed by \u00a0the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumawu constituency, Philip Basoah and one other, seeking to quash the decision to re-run elections in three constituencies.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”Hqzte5JWelbA2DXoLnJr8KawAoSUWLfl”]In April, 2014, an Accra High Court placed an injunction on the Kumawu, Juabeng and the Manhyia North constituencies.<\/p>\n
In its ruling, the court presided over by Justice Bright Mensah noted that the register from the three affected constituencies should not be included in the party’s delegates register in the conduct of \u00a0its national delegates conference or any election of the NPP till a re-run of their constituency executives elections were conducted.<\/p>\n
The NPP subsequently reached an agreement with three aggrieved members in the three constituencies for fresh polling station and constituency elections to be held in these areas in August 2014.<\/p>\n
Angered by this settlement, the Kumawu Legislator and his constituency chairman, Joseph Danso, filed a case at the Supreme Court seeking to set aside the arrangement.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Citi News,<\/strong> lawyer for the three NPP members, Dr. Poku Adusei said the court\u2019s ruling has now paved the way for the elections in the three constituencies to be held.<\/p>\n He said the ruling signifies victory for the party.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Supreme Court has dismissed a case filed by \u00a0the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumawu constituency, Philip Basoah and one other, seeking to quash the decision to re-run elections in three constituencies. [contextly_sidebar id=”Hqzte5JWelbA2DXoLnJr8KawAoSUWLfl”]In April, 2014, an Accra High Court placed an injunction on the Kumawu, Juabeng and the Manhyia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-84710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84710","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}