The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has defied a court order that prevented the party from swearing in its Youth Organiser-elect, George Opare Addo also known as ‘Pablo’.
Pablo and the other party executives who were elected at the 10th National Congress of the NDC at the Accra Sports Stadium were sworn into office Sunday morning in blatant defiance of the interim injunction by the court.
The decision by the party in swearing-in Opare Addo came as a surprise to many after the party’s legal team acknowledged receipt of the writ on Saturday.
NDC’s Director of Legal Affairs, Mr Abraham Amaliba, had confirmed in an interview with GNA that the party had been served by the Court.
“The Legal Team is here at the Congress grounds. I’m told the Party has been served now so I will take the document and we meet as a team and decide”, he indicated.
The High Court at Amasaman last Friday granted an application for Interim Injunction against the NDC Planning Committee Chairman, Alex Segbefia; Acting Director of Elections, Daniel Amartey, the Electoral Commission and George Opare Addo restraining them, their Agents and/or assigns from swearing in George Opare Addo as the National Youth Organizer-elect of the main opposition party.
The defendants were also restrained from holding Opare Addo out as the National Youth Organizer-elect of the NDC.
This was after the court heard an application for interim injunction brought by Brogya Genfi, a contestant in the just-ended National Youth Organizer election of the NDC, the TEIN President of UPSA, Ibrahim Rashid and Paul Amaldago, TEIN President for the University of Ghana, Legon, who are challenging the legality of George Opare Addo’s election.
They challenging the election of Pablo on grounds that the defendants violated two expressed orders/decisions of the High Court and the expressed directives of the National Democratic Congress.
The plaintiffs had filed a Writ of Summons, seeking the annulment of the just-ended National Youth Organizer election on the basis that 22 TEIN President delegates who by the expressed orders of the High Court were supposed to vote in the elections, were excluded and/or prevented from participating in the elections and that 17 persons who were not supposed to participate in the elections were rather allowed to vote.
