Three NPP members ask court to quash Amasaman primaries
Three members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) want the cancellation of the results of the party’s parliamentary primaries at the Amasaman constituency in the Greater Accra region.
Isaac Owusu-Ansah, Mohammed Gumah and Louis Boakye say the primaries went ahead despite a court injunction against the process.
And so, they have filed a suit at the Accra High Court seeking the annulment of the December 15 polls.
Named as defendants are Greater Accra NPP Regional Chairman Divine Agorhome; NPP Director of Elections Evans Nimako, Chairman of the Amasaman constituency Michael Ofori Asante and Constituency Secretary of the Amasaman Constituency Samuel Acquah-Young.
The others are Elections Committee Chairman of the Amasaman constituency Nii Obodai Sai, the Electoral Commission (EC) and one Akwasi Afrifa Mensah.
The plaintiffs argue that a parliamentary aspirant, Rockson Adu Boahene, who was seeking to contest in the polls placed an injunction on the election on December 14, 2019.
This was after he filed a suit seeking an order of interlocutory injunction against the Respondents. He also sought a declaration that he is a qualified candidate to contest the constituency parliamentary election in the Amasaman Constituency.
However, the elections went ahead despite the injunction.
Mr Boahene who sought the injunction went back to court to have the case withdrawn on January 14, 2020.
The Plaintiffs are there, therefore, seeking the following reliefs:
a) A Declaration that the election held by the Defendants on 15th December 2019 without the final determination of the Rockson Adu Boahen’s suit is null and void.
b) A Declaration that the results from the conducted election on 15th December,
2019 by the Defendants is null and void.
c) A Declaration that the Defendants are in contempt of this Honourable Court
when they conducted the constituency parliamentary elections on 15th
December 2019 while the Rockson Adu Boahene suit and interlocutory injunction application were still pending.
d) An order of Interlocutory injunction directed at the 7th Defendant, restraining
him from holding himself out as the parliamentary candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, Amasaman Constituency until the final determination of the
present suit.
e) An order directed at the Defendants compelling them to hold fresh elections to
determine the Parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party for
Amasaman constituency.
f) Costs including legal fees.
g) Any other order(s) the Honourable Court may deem fit.
Below is the writ of summons