By Joyce Danso
Accra, July 8, GNA – Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma North, is seeking the orders of the court against the Electoral Commission’s decision to rerun the elections in her constituency.
The Electoral Commission (EC) last week announced a rerun in 19 out of 281 polling stations in the constituency.
The NPP parliamentary candidate has, however, filed a judicial review in certiorari at an Accra High Court, seeking to quash the directive.
The EC’s directive was contained in a letter dated July 1, 2025, and a press statement dated July 2, 2025 under the authority of the Deputy Chairman of Operation, to conduct the rerun in the 19 polling stations.
Akua Afriyie, through her counsel Gary Nimako, is seeking a declaration that the Commission’s decision violated the High Court’s ruling on January 4, 2025.
She is seeking the order of the court to restrain the EC from conducting the election rerun in the 19-polling stations on Friday, July 11, 2025.
The NPP parliamentary candidate’s lawyer held that the Commission’s decision to rerun 19 out of the 281 polling stations in the constituency “is arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable, and wrongful exercise of discretionary power.”
Her lawyers say the EC committed a grave administrative error when it failed to comply with the ruling or orders of the High Court to collate and declare the winner of the parliamentary election in Ablekuma North Constituency.
The NPP parliamentary candidate contended that the EC acted in excess of jurisdiction when it decided to rerun 19 out of 281 polling stations in Ablekuma North in the absence of any court order varying, vacating, or overturning a subsisting High Court Judgement, dated January 4, 2025.
GNA
Edited by Agnes Boye-Doe