The Accra High Court has dismissed an injunction application filed by New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate, Nana Akua Afriyie, seeking to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from conducting a rerun of elections in 19 polling stations.
In an application for judicial review, the former MP contended that the EC’s decision contradicts a High Court order issued on January 4, 2025.
That ruling directed the Commission to collate and declare results from all 281 polling stations in the constituency, not to hold fresh elections.
Nana Akua’s lawyer, Gary Nimako, argued that the EC’s Deputy Chairperson, Bossman Asare, under oath, stated there were only three outstanding polling stations to be collated and had requested police security for the process.
They therefore cannot fathom why the EC now intends to disobey the court order and rerun elections in 19 polling stations on Friday, July 11, 2025.
Adom News’ Prince Owusu Asiedu, who was in court, reported that Mr. Nimako described the EC’s move as contempt of court.
He pleaded with the judge, Justice Alibaba Abature, to direct the EC to appear before the court within 10 days to explain its decision to defy the earlier judgment.
Despite these arguments, Justice Abature ruled that the ex-parte application was “unmeritorious.”
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