An Accra High Court has dismissed a bribery allegation suit against the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) President Albert Kwabena Dwumfour.
The suit was filed by a senior journalist Justice Lee Adoboe at the time when the incumbent president was declared the winner of the GJA presidential polls in June 2022.
The plaintiff (Justice Adoboe) had alleged that before the GJA elections, Mr Dwumfour gave members of the association GH¢500 each at an event organized in the Western Region.
In the suit, he contended that the bribery allegations levelled against Mr Dwumfuor should have been investigated before the elections were held.
He thus prayed the court to declare the elections null and void and further urged the court to halt the swearing-in process.
But the court turned down his request and ruled in favour of the defendant (Albert Dwumfour).
The court ruled that all the reliefs sought by the plaintiff, including restraining Albert Dwumfour from holding himself as GJA President, are null and void.
Albert Kwabena Dwumfour was elected the new GJA President on Friday, June 24, 2022.
The media consultant and Head of Corporate Affairs at the Tobinco Group of Companies emerged victorious after beating the Editor of Ghanaian Times and former General Secretary of the GJA, Dave Agbenu and a Communications Consultant, Gayheart Mensah.
While Albert Dwumfuor polled 233 votes, Gayheart Mensah got 181 votes, and Dave Agbenu had 142 votes.
Over 800 members of GJA voted to elect the new national and regional executives last week.