The National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2020 Parliamentary Candidate for Hohoe, Professor Margaret Kweku, and four others have filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking a review of the Apex court’s decision quashing orders made by the Ho High Court restraining Peter Amewu from holding himself out as Member of Parliament for the constituency.
The four other applicants are Simon Alan Opoku-Mintah, John Kwame Obimpeh, Godfred Koku Fofie and Felix Quarshie.
An affidavit filed by the plaintiffs believe the ruling contained fundamental errors of law which they see as a grave miscarriage of justice.
Their Statement of Case filed also sets out eight grounds for review.
The Ho High Court on December 23, 2020, presided over by Justice George Buadi granted an interim injunction restraining the Electoral Commission from gazetting Mr. Amewu as the MP for Hohoe.
This followed an ex parte application filed by residents of the Guan District who were not given the opportunity to vote in the parliamentary elections of December 7, 2020.
Eligible voters within areas in the newly created district; namely Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi, were only allowed to take part in the presidential election but could not vote in the parliamentary because a constituency had not been created for them.
The applicants demanded the enforcement of their fundamental human rights to vote.
The State through a Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame, subsequently filed a motion at the Supreme Court to fight the injunction placed on Mr. Amewu.
The Supreme Court on January 5, 2021, declared as null and void, the Ho High Court’s interim orders of injunction against the Electoral Commission from gazetting John Peter Amewu as Member of Parliament-elect for Hohoe; and and for Mr. Amewu from parading himself as having been elected Member of Parliament.
