Supreme Court sets April 30 to rule on Akwatia MP’s injunction case

The Supreme Court has postponed the rule on an application filed by Akwatia MP, Ernest Kumi, to April 30 seeking to Overthrow an interim injunction that was brought against his swearing-in on January 6.

Regardless he injunction, Kumi continue with the swearing-in ceremony, leading to a complaint of contemptuous by the High Court. He is now requesting the Supreme Court to overturn the judicial order and bar the High Court judge from proceeding with the case.

Kumi’s legal team, headed by Gary Nimako Marfo, claims that the High Court made an error in granting the injunction as it was without power.

In their view, the injunction arose from an election petition filed on December 31, 2024 by NDC parliamentary candidate Henry Boakye.

However, they argue that  under electoral laws, similar petitions can only be submitted within 21 days of the official publication of election results. They argue the official publication was issued on January 6, 2025, making the petition premature.

Again , Boakye’s lawyers denied this, claiming that the Electoral Commission (EC) had gazetted the results earlier on December 24, 2024. Lead counsel Bernard Bediako Baidu claimed that the gazette submitted by Kumi contained errors and that their client had the base documents, authorized by EC filings making reference to Gazette No. 234 from December 24.

He also highlighted the mistakes in Kumi’s document, which bore a different gazette number.

The EC’s legal representative, Justin Amennuvor, expressed that neither document was provided to the High Court at the at the time of the decision. He also disclosed that the judge had relied solely on an online publication quoted by NDC lawyers to define jurisdiction boundaries.

Amennuvor maintained that since the court did not possess the official gazette record before making its decision, its ruling needs to be reversed.

The five-member Supreme Court panel, chaired by Justice Gabriel Pwamang, will deliver its ruling on the matter on April 30.