{"id":185424,"date":"2016-01-29T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185424"},"modified":"2016-01-29T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:00:02","slug":"onsy-sues-cpp-seeks-injunction-on-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/onsy-sues-cpp-seeks-injunction-on-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Onsy sues CPP; seeks injunction on congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”hxPXaBAAz1xa2AZE0aX1KIGdqOZBLlgk”]He is\u00a0seeking an injunction to restrain the party from holding its scheduled congress on Saturday to elect a flagbearer.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He is praying the court to order the party to re-instate him in the race.<\/p>\n

In his statement of claim to the Human Rights Division of the High Court, he alleges that he was\u00a0\u201cmanhandled 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\u00a0\u00a0 his attempt at filling his nominations forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been disagreement between Samia Nkrumah, former Chairperson of the CPP and one of the presidential aspirant over the paternity of Onsy.<\/p>\n

Samia \u00a0has cast doubt about Onsy’s claim that he is also the son of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n

Onsy, who has insisted he is Dr. Nkrumah’s son, believes Samia may have orchestrated his disqualification\u00a0from the race.<\/p>\n

Onsy is seeking the following reliefs<\/p>\n