Fanteakwa North NDC PC sues EC over re-declaration of outcomes – Ghana Information On-line
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Fanteakwa North constituency within the Eastern area, has filed a swimsuit at a High Court in Koforidua in search of to quash the purported re-declaration of the parliamentary election outcomes at Tesano within the Greater Accra area.
The swimsuit, filed by Issac Mintah Larbi, lead counsel of Okore Chambers, seeks an order of judicial evaluate, together with certiorari and prohibition.
The candidate, Haruna Apaw Wiredu, additionally desires the courtroom to restrain the EC from issuing any publication, gazette, or doc within the title of the NPP parliamentary candidate, Kwame Appiah Kodua.
Kodua was declared the parliamentary candidate-elect for the constituency following the EC’s re-collation of outcomes on December 12.
The EC, named because the respondent within the case, nullified the sooner declaration of Haruna Apaw Wiredu because the winner on the constituency capital, Begoro, claiming it was towards established electoral processes.
According to the Returning Officer, Zacharia Adams, the preliminary outcomes confirmed the NDC candidate secured 11,138 votes towards Kwame Kodua’s 10,847 votes.
Isaac Mintah Larbi, who additionally serves because the Director of Legal Affairs for the NDC within the Eastern Region, defined that the EC’s actions violated constitutional devices (CIs) which prohibit re-collating, recounting, or re-declaring already declared outcomes. The solely possibility for anybody sad with the outcomes is to take the matter to courtroom,” he added.
“What we are asking the court to do is that the so-called re-declaration that the EC has done at Tesano is illegal. It is a nullity in law. They have no legal basis to do that, and the electoral laws of this country do not permit what they have done,” Mr Larbi stated.
“We’ve moved to the High Court to ask it to quash the re-declaration at Tesano. This occurred two days after the Returning Officer in charge of the Fanteakwa North constituency had already declared the results in favour of Hon. Haruna Apaw Wiredu. For that reason alone, everything the EC did at Tesano is a complete nullity. It cannot be acceptable, it’s illegal.”
Mr Larbi additional emphasised that there is no such thing as a authorized provision in Ghana’s electoral legal guidelines for the function of “deputy returning officer,” a place referenced within the EC’s re-collation course of at Tesano.
“There is no position within the laws of this country that recognizes the title of deputy returning officer. So, that alone shows that everything they did in Tesano is a complete nullity. It’s not acceptable. It’s illegal,” he acknowledged.
Source: myjoyonline.com
