Court orders EC to make available photo album use in NPP Walewale election to plaintiff
Published:
3 months ago
Source:
GhanaWeb
The High Court in Tamale has ordered the (EC) in Walewale to open the ballot box and provide copies of the voter register used in the 's parliamentary primaries. The Court, presided over by Justice Richard Marc Kogyapwah, a Justice of the Court of Appeal who is sitting as an additional High Court Judge, also ordered the EC to grant access to the material evidence used in the electoral process in the Walewale election, which has become the subject matter of a court action. The orders of the High Court followed an action initiated by Haija Lariba Zuwera Abudu (plaintiff) and Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, a defeated parliamentary aspirant challenging the elections. The plaintiff, in her writ issued at the court to challenge the Walewale parliamentary election through her lawyer, Sylvester Isang (ESQ), prayed for an order directed at the EC (3rd Defendant) to allow them unrestricted access to material evidence that validates their claims regarding various irregularities and flagrant violations of electoral rules in the NPP parliamentary primaries for the Walewale constituency, which were held on January 27, 2024. The plaintiff sued Dr.