The Bolgatanga high court has advised nine aggrieved members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bongo Constituency of the Upper East Region – who were disqualified from participating in the party’s branch elections – to use the party structures to address their issues and report the outcome to it (court).
The nine members, in their quest to fight what they saw as an injustice against them, went to the court and succeeded in getting it to place an interlocutory injunction on all the 98 branch elections in the constituency.
The court also directed that elections in 94 branches that were not directly affected by the court order could be conducted, while the polls in the four branches where the aggrieved persons were disqualified, should be held later, after their issues had been settled through the structures.
So far, it’s only the Bongo Constituency that has not had its branch elections in the region. The constituency, like others, was supposed to have had its lections from 26th to 29th April and 30th April for mop-up.
The NDC elections director in the constituency, McClean Ayamga, in a brief interview with DAILY GUIDE, said the 94 branches would be having their elections yesterday since the vetting process had been completed before the injunction came in.
The other four branches that were affected by the court order – Kontia Primary School, Old Mission, Gurugo Petrian and Gurugo Primary School – would hold theirs on Saturday, May 12, if their grievances were resolved.
From Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Bongo