Gyakye Quayson will win Assin North by-election despite Supreme Court ruling – Sammy Gyamfi

The National Democratic Congress’s Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi is optimistic that the party’s parliamentary candidate for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson will win the upcoming by-election scheduled for June 27 despite a Supreme Court ruling kicking him out of Parliament.

The Supreme Court ruled that Mr.

I have no doubt in my mind, having been on the ground and interacted with many of them the past few days, that they will not falter.

And that, they will vote for Hon.

Strangely, the Supreme Court of Ghana in their judgment says that, qualification must be at the time of NOMINATION (i.e at the time a candidate files or submits his/her nomination form to the EC).

Gyakye Quayson’s election is solely based on the fact that, at the time he submitted his nomination form to the EC on 9th October, 2020, he had not received his certificate of renunciation of his Canadian citizenship and that he received same on 26th November, 2020.

Even if we are to go by this strange position of the Supreme Court that qualification must be at the time of NOMINATION and not ELECTION, it is important to remind the Supreme Court that in the Nduom case, they held in effect, that the nomination period for an election, must extend beyond the submission of nomination forms and must include the period the EC uses to scrutinize submitted results, within which the EC is supposed to give candidates a hearing and an opportunity to rectify any anomalies on their nomination form.