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The Minister of Energy, John Peter Amewu, has started his registration as an elected deputy of the VIII Parliament of the IV Republic.
This is despite a court order from a Ho Superior Court prohibiting the minister from participating in the swearing-in ceremony.
The registration exercise that began on January 2, 2021, is expected to end on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, before the swearing-in takes place on January 7.
Background
On December 23, the Ho High Court, chaired by Judge George Buadi, granted an interim injunction preventing the EC from publishing New Patriotic Party (PNP) candidate John Peter Amewu as an elected deputy for Hohoe.
This followed an ex parte application submitted by five people, including the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the Hohoe constituency, Professor Margaret Kweku.
The plaintiffs had argued that Mr. Amewu’s election as deputy-elect was plagued with many “shortcomings” and that Mr. Amewu “was not properly elected to represent the people of the Hohoe Constituency”.
Basically, the applicants argued that the voters of Santrofi, Akpafu, Likpe and Lolobi, (SALL) only had the opportunity to vote in the presidential elections and not in the parliamentary elections.
It should be noted that the EC did not hold parliamentary elections in SALL following a Supreme Court decision in June this year, which declared it unconstitutional for SALL, which is now located in the Oti region, to be part of the constituency of Hohoe, which is located in Volta. Region.
According to the supreme court, according to article 47 (2) of the 1992 Constitution, “no electoral district shall belong to more than one region.”
