An Accra High Court will deliver its ruling on the preliminary legal objection by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to the New Patriotic Party’s suit (mandamus application) against the four disputed constituencies today Wednesday, January 1, 2025.
The Supreme Court had ordered the Accra High Court to reconsider the mandamus application of the National Democratic Congress regarding the constituencies whose results were under dispute.
The constitucnies were Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central and Techiman South.
In a 5-0 unanimous decision the Apex court on Friday, December 27, indicated that the presiding Judge hearing the case should have given the legal representation of the NDC a hearing on their application to be joined to the NPP’s mandamus application since they were an interested party that would’ve been affected by the ruling.
The NDC was challenging a High Court ruling that directed the Electoral Commission (EC) to re-collate parliamentary election results in nine disputed constituencies.
Aggrieved parliamentary candidates from both the NDC and the NPP had filed a writ, seeking to compel the EC to hold fresh elections in these constituencies.
They cited anomalies in the collation of results and the subsequent declaration of winners.
Presiding Judge Joseph Adu Owusu Agyeman, in his ruling on Friday, December 20, ordered the EC to proceed with the re-collation of the results in the Ablekuma North constituency.
This ruling was made despite objections from NDC legal representatives, led by Godwin Edudzi Tameklo. Both lawyers argued that the results of the constituencies had already been declared, but the court determined that anomalies in the process warranted the re-collation.
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