Group Secures Court Injunction Against Saturday’s Parliamentary Primary In Asante Mampong

 

The parliamentary primary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante Mampong Constituency has been suspended after some 35 disgruntled party members obtained a court injunction against the election.

 

 

The NPP in Mampong has been embroiled in a legal tussle since February 2022 after some party members challenged the validity of polling station elections.

The court case, which lasted over a year, was dismissed by the High Court in Mampong, paving the way for the party to hold elections for electoral area coordinators and constituency executives.

 

 

The plaintiffs, who were unhappy with the High Court ruling, obtained a separate injunction seeking to prevent polling station executives from participating in the presidential primaries of the party in 2023.

However, the polling station executives were able to take part in that election, as the plaintiffs failed to serve the party on time.

The plaintiffs, led by one Kofi Sarpong, have obtained a fresh injunction at the Court of Appeal against the 27th January 2024 parliamentary primary in Mampong.

This was after they had filed an appeal on the previous case that was dismissed by the High Court.

The Asante Mampong Constituency Secretary of the NPP, Alhaji Malik Agyei, confirmed that the party had suspended the election after being served with the injunction.

“We received a letter yesterday and the understanding is that some 25 people took the party to court on February 25, 2022, and the reason was that polling station elections that were conducted were unclean because they say people were denied forms, others’ forms were torn, and others were made to contest positions that they did not intend to contest, and it was dismissed.

“Little did we know they have gone again to injunct the primary. I was there yesterday, and they brought an interlocutory injunction from the High Court and so as we speak, we have been duly served and it is to be moved on February 14, 2024, and so we await the court to sit on the injunction to pave the way for the primary,” he said.

Source: MyGhanaMedia.com