The Attorney General (AG) has dragged the Ho High Court to the Supreme Court for granting an injunction against the swearing-in of John Peter Amewu as the Member of Parliament for the Hohoe Constituency.
The AG wants the Supreme Court to quash the High Court’s Order of injunction and also stop it from hearing the substantive matter brought against Mr. Amewu and the Electoral Commission for lack of jurisdiction.
The AG argues in a suit that the ruling from the Ho High Court “constituted a patent error” since it could not hear the matter.
“The High Court has no jurisdiction under article 33 of the Constitution to entertain a matter like a parliamentary election petition and to grant any reliefs(s) interim, interlocutory or final, available in a parliamentary election commended under article 99 and section 16 of the Representation of the People’s Law, 1992 (PNDC 284).”
“The proceedings of the court below and the orders emanating therefrom dated 23rd December 2020 were void as same violated article 99 of the Constitution,” The plaintiff noted in their application.
Background
The Ho High Court on December 23, 2020, presided over by Justice George Buadi has granted an interim injunction restraining the Electoral Commission from gazetting the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) John Peter Amewu as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hohoe.
This was after an ex parte application by residents in the Guan district who were not allowed to vote in parliamentary elections.
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