The petitioners in the case against John Peter Amewu, Member of Parliament for Hohoe, have announced their intention to file an appeal notice to the Ho High Court following the court’s dismissal of their case.
The court dismissed the petition challenging the validity of Amewu’s election on grounds of lack of jurisdiction.
The petitioners, representing 17,000 voters from the Santrofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) enclave, had sought to nullify the 2020 parliamentary election that saw Amewu become MP.
The voters from the SALL area had been left without representation in the 8th parliament due to the creation of the Oti Region from the Volta Region.
In an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News, the spokesperson for the petitioners, George Bright Anni Bansah, revealed that they would file an appeal notice to the Ho High Court on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.
He stated that they do not need to go to the Supreme Court for interpretation, as the matter can be resolved by the Appeal Court.
According to Bansah, “If there should be any confusion, what I know is that if the law gives any confusion that is where we go back to the Supreme Court for the Supreme Court to give interpretation”
“We need to go back to the Ho High Court to see if it will be referred to the appeals court. I hear that is the law, I don’t know much about that, but that was the instruction I was given by our lawyers,” he stated.
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