{"id":585617,"date":"2019-01-15T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Jean Mensa, EC Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ayawaso West Wuogon\nConstituency Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC),\nBismark Aborbi-Ayitey, has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) for its decision\nto hol"},"modified":"2019-01-15T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:21:44","slug":"ndc-sues-ec-over-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/15\/ndc-sues-ec-over-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Sues EC Over By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jean Mensa, EC Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ayawaso West Wuogon<br \/>\nConstituency Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC),<br \/>\nBismark Aborbi-Ayitey, has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) for its decision<br \/>\nto hold a by-election on January 31, 2019, for the vacant parliamentary seat in<br \/>\nthe area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit filed at<br \/>\nthe Supreme Court, the date set out by the EC exceeds the 60-day period<br \/>\noutlined by the 1992 Constitution for organising such by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking a declaration by the<br \/>\napex court that the 31<sup>st<\/sup> January 2019 date for the exercise is<br \/>\ninconsistent with and in contravention of Article 112 (5) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore wants the court to<br \/>\norder the Electoral Commission to organize the by-election before or by January<br \/>\n26, 2019, as against EC\u2019s stipulated January 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Attached to the suit is the<br \/>\nAttorney General as the first defendant. <\/p>\n<p>Article 112 (5) of the 1992<br \/>\nConstitution states: \u201cWhenever a vacancy occurs in Parliament, the Clerk to<br \/>\nParliament shall notify the Electoral Commission in writing within seven days<br \/>\nafter becoming aware that the vacancy has occurred; and a by-election shall be<br \/>\nheld within thirty days after the vacancy occurred, except that where the<br \/>\nvacancy occurred through the death of a member, the by-election shall be within<br \/>\nsixty days after the occurrence of the vacancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The January 31, 2019 date by<br \/>\nthe EC for the by-elections exceeds the 60-day period by about 10 days<br \/>\nfollowing the death of then Member of Parliament (MP) of the area, the late<br \/>\nEmmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko on November 21, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant is therefore<br \/>\nseeking an \u201corder of this Honourable Court directed at the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> defendant<br \/>\n(EC) to conduct and supervise the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election<br \/>\nnot later than the 26th\u00a0of January 2019, in consonance with the mandatory<br \/>\nconstitutional time frame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ayawaso West Wuogon seat<br \/>\nbecame vacant on November 21 last year following the demise of Emmanuel<br \/>\nKyeremanteng Agyarko who then occupied it.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Lydia Seyram Alhassan<br \/>\nover the weekend filed her nomination at the Electoral Commission to contest<br \/>\nthe seat of her late husband.<\/p>\n<p>She is running on the ticket of<br \/>\nthe New Patriotic Party (NPP), and is set to face opposition from the candidate<br \/>\nof the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Delali Brempong, in the upcoming<br \/>\nby-election slated for January 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated that she has the desire of continuing with the developmental projects started by her late husband, which include the completion of a district hospital, rehabilitation of the Santana market and the completion of the Dzorwulu-Abelenkpe road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Mensa, EC Chairperson The Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bismark Aborbi-Ayitey, has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) for its decision to hold a by-election on January 31, 2019, for the vacant parliamentary seat in the area. 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