A Ghanaian citizen, Fafali Nyonantor, has filed a fresh application praying the Supreme Court to restrain President Nana Akufo-Addo from appointing a new Chairperson for the Electoral Commission, pending the determination of her substantive case against the removal.
This comes barely a day after it emerged that the President has lined-up some individuals to fill the vacancies at the Commission.
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The fresh application for interlocutory junction follows an earlier suit by the same plaintiff, in which she’s asking the court to declare that the committee set up by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, to investigate separate complaints brought against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, exceeded their powers by recommending the removal of the Chairperson and that the recommendations in the report be declared null and void.
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The plaintiff is seeking among other reliefs “A declaration that the determination by Her Ladyship the Chief Justice of a prima facie case pursuant to article 146 of the Constitution for the removal from office of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission is inconsistent with article 130 (a) of the Constitution as by the said determination Her Ladyship the Chief Justice usurped the exclusive original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to construe and/or define scope of application of the provisions of the Constitutions, particularly articles 44 (2) and 146 thereof.”