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A petition has been filed in Cape Coast High Court to annul Mr. James Gyakye Quayson’s declaration as an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the Assin North constituency.
The petition filed by Michael Ankomah-Nimfa of Assin Bereku, has served the Electoral Commission (EC) as second defendant and another.
The defendants have eight days to appear or, in the event of non-compliance, the case will be heard and a sentence will be pronounced in their absence.
Quayson, the elected deputy of the Democratic National Congress (NDC), obtained 17,498 against Mrs. Abena Durowaa Mensah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who obtained 14,793 in the elections of December 7, 2020.
In November last year, a group calling itself ‘Concerned Citizens of Assin North’ petitioned the EC in the Central Region to withdraw the candidacy of Mr. Quayson as he owes allegiance to Canada.
He was challenged for having dual citizenship against the express provision of article 94 (2) (a) of the 1992 constitution of Ghana, which states: “A person may not be a member of Parliament if: (a) he owes allegiance to a country other than Ghana. ”
—GNA
