The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has submitted an application for an interlocutory injunction against the Electoral Commission (EC), aiming to stop the Ejisu by-election.
The CPP wants to prevent the April 30 by-election from proceeding until a lawsuit against the Electoral Commission is resolved.
This lawsuit seeks to prevent Esther Osei from representing the party in the election.
Initiated by Emmanuel Gallo, the CPP’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, the lawsuit claims the party informed the EC on April 18 of its decision not to participate in the by-election.
Among the six reliefs the party is seeking, it is praying the court to declare “that on record, no Constituency Branch Conference of the CPP has been held in Ejisu and elected the said Esther Osei or anybody as a Parliamentary candidate for consideration and approval by the CPP’s Central Committee to be submitted to Defendant as CPP’s Parliamentary candidate for the said Ejisu Constituency by-election.”
The party argues that any candidate claiming to represent the CPP in the by-election, especially Esther Osei, has not received official endorsement through the party’s internal procedures as required by its constitution.
They added that its “Central Committee has not considered and approved the said Esther Osei or any other person to contest on the ticket and behalf of the CPP as a political party, regarding the Defendant’s intended Ejisu Constituency by-election.
The CPP states that the selection of a parliamentary candidate for the constituency should follow a process involving the Constituency Branch Party Conference and subsequent approval from the Central Committee, which has not taken place in this case.
The CPP emphasizes that neither Esther Osei nor any other individual has been properly elected through the party’s formal procedures for candidate selection in the Ejisu Constituency.
In its legal action, the CPP is seeking a declaration that the party’s Central Committee has not endorsed Esther Osei or any other candidate to represent the CPP in the Ejisu Constituency by-election.
The party requests that the High Court halt the by-election until its claims and demands are addressed.