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New Patriotic Party delegates in the Ablekuma North constituency in the Greater Accra Region are not voting in the party’s parliamentary primaries scheduled for Saturday due to an eleventh hour court injunction.
The counsel for the applicants, Egbert Faibille who announced this on Joy FM's flagship programme Newsfile, Saturday, said the application was filed on Friday and the Electoral Commission and appropriate party authorities have been served with the injunction accordingly.
Shedding light on the case, the counsel said about 170 applicants who were “discontent” with the actions of the constituency executives on the election of some polling station executives, who would be electing the party’s parliamentary candidate there, initially filed the suit in court.
The applicants were from 90 polling stations that Mr Faibille said had a successful and legitimate election but were not selected to vote in the impending primary in the constituency.
However, he noted, an attempt made to broker an out of court settlement “did not work” as some executives “revised” the courts decision.
“In the first suit the injunction restricts the NPP and also the then constituency executives, regional and national executives from holding elections in 24 [outstanding] polling stations in the Ablekuma North pending a final determination of the case.”
He said: “some persons in the ruling [constituency]executives have gone ahead, disregarded the fact that the court in an injunction ruling has upheld the results of the elections in the 90 polling stations, and [the party executives] have done some sort of electoral re-engineering which has thrown everything [into disarray]. So the persons who are duly elected according to the court ruling are dissatisfied and so have brought a fresh action.”
Meanwhile, elections in some 218 constituencies were held on Saturday to elect parliamentary candidates for the 2012 general elections.
Reports from Kumasi by Luv's Fm correspondent, Said Ali Yacoub,also indicate that the incumbent MP,Mathew Poku Prempeh has retained his seat to represent the NPP in the 2012 Parliamentary elections as he pulled 509 votes out of the 649 vote cast.His main contender,Kwabena Amofa Sarpong got 140 votes.
Story by Isaac Essel/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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