There’s a heavy police presence at the Koforidua High Court ahead of the hearing of the lawsuit filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Akwatia Constituency, Henry Boakye Yiadom against the Electoral Commission, New Patriotic Party(NPP) Parliamentary Candidate Ernest Kumi, and the Clerk to Parliament.
The suit seeks to prevent Kumi’s swearing-in as the Member of Parliament-elect for the Akwatia Constituency.
The court will also sit on the judicial review application filed by lawyers of the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Fanteakwa North seeking to quash the purported re-declaration of the Fanteakwa North Parliamentary elections by the Electoral Commission at Tesano on December 12.
Gary Nimako Marfo Esq, Larbi Mintah, MP for Ofoase Ayirebi Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Regional party leadership of both the NDC and the NPP are currently in court.
The Koforidua High Court had issued an interim injunction preventing Ernest Kumi from being sworn in as the Member of Parliament-elect for the Akwatia constituency.
The injunction follows a lawsuit filed by lawyers for Henry Boakye-Yiadom, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate, against the Electoral Commission (EC), Ernest Kumi, and the Clerk to Parliament.
The legal action seeks to halt Kumi’s swearing-in pending the resolution of the case.
The Akwatia constituency was among the contested seats re-collated and declared by the EC at the National Police Training School in Tesano, Accra.
According to the EC’s final collation, Ernest Kumi of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was declared the winner with 19,269 votes, while Henry Boakye-Yiadom of the NDC polled 17,206 votes.
After hearing arguments in the case, the court ruled in favour of issuing the interim injunction, effectively barring Mr Kumi from being recognized as the MP-elect for the Akwatia constituency until further notice.
