Three teenagers and a civil society group has filed an application asking the High Court to declare the planned limited voters registration exercise of the Electoral Commission unreasonable, unfair and in violation of Regulation 2 of Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (CI 91).
The EC has been forced to postpone the exercise which was scheduled to start from Friday June 7, 2019 to await the outcome of an application for injunction hearing at the Supreme Court on June 11, 2019.
The application for injunction was filed by Dr. Dominic Ayine who is lawyer for Daboya based in the Savannah Region, Umar Ayuba who is challenging the modalities for the planned limited voters registration exercise.
Whiles the EC awaits the outcome of the injunction hearing and the substantive suit filed by Umar Ayuba, it is faced with a new challenge in the form of an application for judicial review application.
The application has been filed by lawyer Elikplim Agbemava on behalf of , Jean Ebenezer 19, Agnes Esther Lamptey 19, Abdul Latif Husein 18 and Care for Free and Fair Elections Ghana.
Lawyer Agbemava in the application filed yesterday was also asking for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the EC from going ahead with Friday’s exercise.
He told host of Gold Power Drive Samuel Eshun on Tuesday June 4, 2019, he would have proceeded to file a proper injunction application today had the EC not decided to postpone the exercise.
Lawyer Elikplim Agbemava is asking the court to order the EC to open registration centers in not less than 6,000 polling stations rather than the 250 district offices it had intended to use.
In addition, Elikplim Agbemava is on behalf of his clients asking the court to order the respondents to “publish in the official gazette the notice to register new voters before commencing such registration.”
Story: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com
