ESHUN AND ANOTHER
V.
POKU AND OTHERS

(1988) JELR 85903 (HC)

High Court 4 Jul 1988 Ghana
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- The High Court held that the election of national officers of the Ghana Hoteliers Association by an electoral college, rather than by secret ballot of members present and voting at the AGM as required by the association’s constitution, wa

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Judges:LUTTERODT J.
Counsel:Professor W. C. Ekow Daniels for the plaintiffs. N. N. Heward Mills for the defendants.
Other Citations:[1989-90] 2 GLR 572-583, [1989-90] 1 GLR 443

LUTTERODT J.

The plaintiffs, who are members of the Ghana Hoteliers Association and of the executive committee thereof, have brought this action against the defendants for the following reliefs:

"1. A declaration that the purported annual general meeting of the Ghana Hoteliers Association held at the Teachers Hall in Accra on 20 May 1987 whereby the said defendants were purportedly elected as national president, second vice-president, and national treasurer respectively, and other officers were elected is ultra vires, unlawful, null and void and constitutes a fraud on the minority and should be set aside.

2. That Mr. John Poku one of the defendants herein resigned from the association prior to the election and hence was not eligible to stand for elections.

3. That the resolution purported to be adopted thereat whereby elections were purported to have been conducted to replace the existing national executive were wrongful, unlawful, ultra vires and contrary to the rules of natural justi…

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