The Supreme Court has indefinitely adjourned the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) suit seeking to overturn a Koforidua High Court’s January 2 injunction on the Akwatia constituency seat.
The Parliamentary Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Henry Boakye Yiadom, filed an election petition at the High Court in Koforidua on December 31, 2024, seeking an ex-parte interim injunction to prevent the swearing-in of the NPP’s candidate, Ernest Kumi, as Member of Parliament.
This petition followed the Electoral Commission’s declaration of Ernest Kumi as the winner of the Akwatia Constituency elections after the conclusion of the collation process on December 12.
Listen to Gary Nimako, lawyer for the NPP, in the video below.
On January 2, 2025, the Koforidua High Court granted the NDC’s injunction application.
In its ruling, the court ordered that the respondents—Ernest Yaw Kumi, the Electoral Commission, and the Clerk of Parliament—along with their representatives, agents, servants, and all privies, are “restrained from proceeding to call, admit, register, swear-in, recognize, or gazette the 1st Respondent as the elected Member of Parliament for the Akwatia constituency, and from the 1st Respondent holding himself out as the Member of Parliament for the Akwatia Constituency.”
Following the ruling, the NPP filed a case at the Supreme Court, asking the Apex Court to overturn the injunction decision.
However, despite the pending determination of the matter, the Electoral Commission proceeded to gazette Ernest Yaw Kumi among 274 others as MPs-elect, leading to his subsequent swearing-in by Parliament on January 7.
When the case was called in court on Thursday, the Supreme Court revealed that its records indicated the NPP had failed to serve the necessary court processes on the NDC.
As a result, the court adjourned the case indefinitely.
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