Some aggrieved card bearing members of the NPP in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency in the Central Region have placed an injunction on the ongoing polling station and electoral area elections in the constituency.
The aggrieved members who are aspiring for various positions accused those in charge of subverting procedures governing the conduct of the elections.
The 21 aggrieved members who are the plaintiff in the case before the court, further stated that the seven officers who are the defendants have allegedly refused to conduct elections in the constituency.
“Even before the stipulated schedule for the elections, [we] realized that the defendants were clandestinely acclaiming some people as polling station executives,” they stated.
They added that though some have filed their documents to contest, acclamations were done instead of elections in blatant breach of the party’s constitution and the guidelines for the elections.
The plaintiffs further mentioned that the defendants have acclaimed over 40 polling stations executives without election contest or notice to them.
This, they claimed, was clandestinely done although they [plaintiffs] have duly filled and submitted their forms to contest the elections.
In spite of the fact that a number of the plaintiffs have submitted their forms, they stressed that “Some of the polling stations have been considered non-contending for those individuals surreptitiously acclaimed.”
The plaintiffs, are therefore, seeking a declaration that the ongoing acclamation without elections is not only unlawful but null and void.
It is also against the rights of the plaintiffs because they are good standing members of the New Patriotic Party in the constituency.
They sought an order for the polling station elections to be conducted in the 83 polling stations in the constituency in accordance with the party’s rules.
They further wanted an order for perpetual injunction restraining the defendants and their agents or their assigns from continuing with the ongoing polling station elections.
The plaintiffs further sought an order which will restrain the defendants in any related process of transmission of the acclaimed individuals to the Regional Office of the party.
The court has fixed 14th March, 2022, for the hearing of the case.
