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'Let the by-decisions start'-Ablakwa responds to SC ruling on Assin North
The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, responding to the choice of the Supreme Court to maintain the decision of the Cape Coast High Court that uncovered James Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as MP for Assin North, has implied that there will be more than one by-political race.
The MP said that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ought to take a sign from the president and individuals from his administration to give their best for have the seat of somewhere in the range of three New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs, who have been alluded to the Privileges Committee of Parliament, announced empty.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, alluded three New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs - Dome Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo; Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong; and Ayawaso Central MP, Henry Quartey - to the Privileges Committee of Parliament after he was requested of by previous MP, Ras Mubarak, to eliminate the MPs for absenting themselves for in excess of 15 successive sittings.
"In the event that there is one thing you need to credit President Akufo Addo and his circle it's their tenacity. Not entirely settled to have a by-political race in Assin North and literally nothing should hinder them.
"I trust this illuminates my own party's lead from consequently, especially by they way we manage the 3 NPP non-attendant MPs, particularly when similarly we have a lot more grounded and evident protected premise to succeed… Let the by-races start," a tweet by the MP read.
Ablakwa further expressed that the public authority investigated every possibility to eliminate the Assin North MP however has overlooked calls to do whatever it may take to guarantee that individuals of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lipke and Lolobi (SALL) Traditional Areas have portrayal in Parliament.
"At the point when an exceptionally disliked government can't be made a fuss over individuals of SALL however is doing anything and everything to affirm its disagreeability in one by-political race, you assist with giving them 4 by-decisions as opposed to yielding to 1," he added.
The Supreme Court has decided that the Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, isn't the Member of Parliament for Assin North.
This comes after a resident of Assin Bereku, by name of Michael Ankomah Nimfah, on January 27, 2022, recorded an interlocutory order against the MP from playing out his parliamentary obligations after a high court judgment abrogated his political decision because of the issue of double citizenship on July 28, 2021
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