NPP Polls: Two File Injunction Against Fomena Constituency Elections

Two disgruntled New Patriotic Party (NPP) members have petitioned the High Court to stop the party from holding elections in the Ashanti Region’s Fomena Constituency.

Benjamin Ofori and Kwame Anokye are questioning the legitimacy of polling station elections overseen by a committee led by Henry Kwabena Kokofu, a former Bantama MP.

They allege that certain people who had automatically lost their party membership after endorsing an independent candidate in the 2020 general election were given the opportunity to choose nomination forms for various positions.

“The plaintiffs aver that all efforts to compel the defendants from disqualifying these people from contesting the elections have proven futile.

“The plaintiffs have been pushed to the belief that aforementioned people can be stopped or disqualified from contesting in the aforementioned 1st defendant only with the help of this Honorable Court”, their writ read in part.

The plaintiffs want among others a declaration that any member of the New Patriotic Party who forfeits his membership cannot contest elections.

The party’s General Secretary, John Boadu was served yesterday (Thursday) at an undisclosed location in Accra, sources familiar with the development had told opemsuo.com

Root Cause
The NPP halted polls in the Fomena constituency while accepting nominations for new grassroots officers.

Some disgruntled party members, on the other hand, organized a protest against the decision, accusing the party’s leadership of rigging the election to favour the supporters of the incumbent MP for the constituency, Andrew Amoako Asiamah.

Asiamah, who is currently Ghana’s Second Deputy Speaker, broke ranks to run as an independent candidate in the 2020 elections.

The demonstrators had warned that any attempt to impose the lawmaker on the constituency would be met with fierce opposition.

Source: Opemsuo.com/ Emmanuel Owusu Anti