News:
November 5, 2015
The embattled parliamentary aspirant for North Tongu, Christopher Kofi Eblu, has sued the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for disqualifying him from contesting the party’s Parliamentary primaries scheduled for November 21, 2015.
Others who are enjoined to the suit are the NDC National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, National Chairman, Volta Regional NDC Chairman, Mr. Joseph Kwabena Gyapong, and North Tongu Constituency Chairman, Mr. Moses Amenudor.
Mr. Eblu is praying the court seeking among other reliefs a declaration that he (Plaintiff) is a proven leading member of the ‘akatamansonians’.
He is also praying to the court to grant an interlocutory injunction on the North Tongu Constituency NDC in the Volta Region, restraining the party from holding its parliamentary primaries.
The suit, with No. GJ/33/2015, was filed at the High Court, Accra, on November 3, 2015.
Mr. Eblu contends that he is a an adult citizen of Ghana, a native of North Tongu in the Volta Region and a proven leading member of the NDC.
That aside, he is also an aspiring candidate for North Tongu NDC Parliamentary Primaries ahead of the forthcoming 2016 general elections.
The Plaintiff further identifies himself as one who contested the previous NDC Parliamentary Primaries in 2012 in North Tongu Constituency on the ticket of the NDC which primaries he narrowly lost to Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the incumbent MP.
Additionally, the Plaintiff argues that by the 1992 4th Republic Constitution, he is adequately qualified to vote and be voted for in any election organized for political purposes in Ghana by the Electoral Commission.
The disgruntled Eleblu was disquafied by the NDC National Petition Review Committee on October 14, 2015 on grounds that he had been arraigned before an Accra High Court (Financial Division) for defrauding the State to the tune of GH₵646,000.00
The former Director of Internal Audit Unit at the Ministry of Health (MOH), was said to have received payment in 2008 for a maintenance contract which was never executed.
His Counsel, Hansen Kofi Adde, has since contested against the decision insisting that the charges brought against by his client lacked merit and therefore, was qualified to contest the primaries.
But his plea was not convincing enough to merit his inclusion in the contest.
The High Court, according to inside sources, has set aside Friday, November 13, 2015 to hear the case.