Due to a lack of jurisdiction, the Ho High Court has dismissed a case contesting the legitimacy of John Peter Amewu’s election as the Hohoe Member of Parliament.
Due to the separation of the Oti Region from the Volta Region, around 17,000 voters from the 13 communities that make up the Santrofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) enclave abstained from the 2020 parliamentary elections, leaving them without representation in the eighth parliament.
Five SALL locals filed a case with the Ho High Court to declare the parliamentary election that elected John-Peter Amewu as MP invalid.
At the previous hearing, John-Peter Amewu entered the petition late and raised three additional problems. The NDC in the area claims that this was a tactic to prolong the case.
In its decision on Monday, July 29, 2024, the court stated that the petitioners’ declaration essentially calls into doubt the legitimacy of CI 128—the law that the EC used to hold the 2020 parliamentary elections.
