The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma North, Akua Afriyie Owusu, has filed a motion at the High Court seeking to quash the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to rerun elections in 19 polling stations within the constituency.
According to her, the EC’s decision contained in a letter dated July 1, 2025, and a press statement dated July 2, 2025, is arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable, and a wrongful exercise of discretionary power.
The motion filed on her behalf by Gary Nimako Marfo, Esq., the NPP’s Director of Legal Affairs raised three grounds for which the court should quash the EC’s decision for a rerun.
The grounds for the application include the EC’s failure to comply with a High Court ruling dated January 4, 2025, which ordered the collation and declaration of the winner of the parliamentary election in Ablekuma North.
The EC’s decision to rerun elections in 19 polling stations without any court order varying or vacating the subsisting High Court judgment is also cited as an excess of jurisdiction.
The motion is asking for an Order of Certiorari to quash the EC’s decision and a further Order prohibiting the EC from proceeding with the rerun of the parliamentary election in the said 19 polling stations.
According to EIB Network’s Legal Affairs Correspondent, Murtala Inusah, a date is yet to be fixed for the hearing of the application.
Meanwhile, the EC had scheduled the rerun for July 11, 2025.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
