Private legal practitioner and National Communication Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the decision by the Supreme Court to order the seat of Gyakye Quayson to be declared as vacant as a travesty of justice.
In an opinion piece, Sammy Gyamfi stated, the Supreme Court’s 35-page judgement has only confirmed our [the NDC’s] position that the Supreme Court’s decision to annul Gyakye Quayson’s election is nothing short of a travesty of justice.
According to him, the Supreme Court clearly ignored legal positions in this country in reaching the conclusion that they did.
“Section 20 (b) of the representation of the people’s PNDC Law 284 is clear that a parliamentary election can only be cancelled if that parliamentary candidate was not qualified at the time of his election, with emphasis on the at the time of his election.
“The Supreme Court says that the Assin North parliamentary elections were held on December 7, 2020, and at the time of that election, Gyakye Quayson had received the renunciation of his Canadian citizenship on November 26, 2020, ten clear days before the election but the Supreme Court is saying that even though he was qualified before the election, he should have been qualified before his nomination and that he submitted his nomination forms on October 9 and that since his certificate of renunciation came on November 26, 2020, he was not qualified by October 9 when he submitted his form, but the law says he should be qualified at the time of the election.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
