Member of Parliament for Old Tafo in the Ashanti region, Lawyer Ekow Vincent Assafuah has described the decision of the Supreme Court to dismiss the case of the Speaker of Parliament as apt.
Speaker and his Lawyers wrote to the Supreme Court to set aside the court's earlier ruling staying his declaration of four seats vacant.
He was challenging the court's jurisdiction over the matter but his case was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
In her ruling, Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo indicated that the constituencies-comprising hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians- who would be left without MPs and without the possibility of by-elections, as well as the irreversible impact on MPs potentially losing their seats just weeks before the December 7 election, it is necessary for this court to address this dispute promptly rather than issuing a 10-day interim order on Article 97(1)(g) as interpreted by the Speaker.