CPP files injunction to halt Ejisu by-election

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has applied for an interlocutory injunction seeking to stop the Electoral Commission from going ahead with the Ejisu by-election on April 30.
The party is hoping to ensure that until a suit filed against the EC is determined, the by-election does not take place on April 30, 2024, or any date as long as one Esther Osei is on the ballot, purporting to contest on the ticket or on behalf of the CPP.

In a suit filed by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Emmanuel Gallo, the party claimed that they had written to the EC on April 18 to categorically inform them of their non-participation in the by-election.

According to the CPP, they are focused on the reorganisation of the party and its offices across the country ahead of the 2024 general elections and as such have no interest in the Ejisu by-election.

However, in a recent turn of events, the party stated that one candidate by name Esther Osei was registered by the EC to contest in the election on the ticket of the party after the letter had been sent.

The CPP is seeking a declaration that “…CPP’s Central Committee has not considered and approved the said Esther Osei or any other person to contest on the ticket and on behalf of the CPP as a political party, regarding the Defendant’s intended Ejisu Constituency by-election.”
Also, they are seeking “an order directed at the Defendant (EC) not to register and allow the said Esther Osei or any other person not elected by the CPP Ejisu Constituency Branch Conference and approved by the CPP’s Central Committee, to contest the said Ejisu Constituency by-election on the ticket and on behalf of the CPP, a political party governed by rules and regulations.”