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REPUBLIC
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HIGH COURT, (GENERAL JURISDICTION 13), ACCRA EX PARTE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS & ORS

(2024) JELR 112830 (SC)

Supreme Court 27 Dec 2024 Ghana
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- The case involves an application for orders of Certiorari and Prohibition by the Applicants, a registered political party and its parliamentary candidates. - The Applicants claim that the collation of polling station results in six consti

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Suit Number:CIVIL MOTION NO: J5/17/2025
Judges:PWAMANG JSC (PRESIDING) PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS) JSC GAEWU JSC KWOFIE JSC ADJEI-FRIMPONG JSC
Counsel:GODWIN KUDZO TAMEKLO ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANTS WITH REINDOLF TWUMASI ANKRAH, SETH NYABA AND BEING LED BY DR. AZIZ BAMBA BAASIT, OSAFO BUABENG AND MARIETTA BREW APPIAH OPPONG. JUSTIN AMENUVOR FOR 1ST INTERESTED PARTY WITH HOPE AGBOADO. GARY NIMAKO MARFO FOR 2ND, 3RD, 4TH, 5TH, 6TH & 7TH INTERESTED PARTIES WITH DR. KWAKU AGYEMANG-BUDU, NANA AGYEI BARFOUR AWUAH, SHADRACK OBENG-YEBOAH AND NANA BENYIN ACKON.

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PWAMANG JSC:

My Lords, before the Court is an application for orders of Certiorari and Prohibition by the Applicants. The 1st Applicant is a registered political party that sponsored candidates to contest in the general elections conducted throughout Ghana on 7th December, 2024. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Applicants contested in the general elections as parliamentary candidates on the ticket of the 1st Applicant in the following six constituencies: Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Tema Central, Techiman South and Ahafo Ano North.

At the close of the poll there were declarations of polling stations results in all of the above constituencies and the election processes advanced to the collation of the polling station results at the constituency levels in order to determine and declare the winner of the parliamentary election in each of the constituencies. According to the Applicants, the collation in four of the above constituencies was carried out to comp…

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