NDC Announces Fund Raising To Support The Party To Win Assin North By-Election
The donation of the money, according to the leadership of the NDC, would help position the party in its quest to retail the parliamentary seat for the NDC in the upcoming by-election which was scheduled by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to take off on June 27, 2023.
Freeman Koryekpor 
National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced to the general public, supporters, members, sympathisers and loyalists of the party to lent their financial supports to the party to carry its activities effectively in the by-election of the Assin North Constituency in the Central Region.
The donation of the money, according to the leadership of the NDC, would help position the party in its quest to retail the parliamentary seat for the NDC in the upcoming by-election which was scheduled by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to take off on June 27 2023.
In a press statement signed and issued by the Deputy General in charge of Administration of the NDC, Madam Barbara Serwaa Asamoah and copied to Soireenews.com, the party stated that the persons willing to support the party in this endeavour can so.
Below is the press statement.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has fixed Tuesday, June 27, 2023 for the by-election in the Assin North Constituency of the Central Region.
This follows a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 17) declaring as unconstitutional, the election of James Gyakye Quayson as the National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament (MP) for that constituency.
SC’s decision
In its judgment in the case of Michael Ankomah Nimfah vs James Gyakye Quayson, the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Attorney-General on May 17, 2023, the apex court ordered Parliament to expunge Mr Quayson’s name as a sitting MP from its records.
The court held that the whole process leading to the election of Mr Quayson– filing of nomination forms, the election itself and swearing-in--were all in violation of Article 94(2)(a) of the 1992 Constitution, which bars a person with dual citizenship from contesting as an MP.
It was the considered view of the court that as of the time Mr Quayson filed his nomination forms in October 2020 to contest the Assin North seat, he had not renounced his Canadian citizenship and, therefore, was not qualified per Article 94(2)(a) of the Constitution.
In view of that, the court further held that the EC also violated Article 94(2)(a) of the Constitution when it permitted Mr Quayson to contest the election.
Parliament
Following the judgment, Parliament wrote to the EC to notify it of the vacancy in the Assin North Constituency.
The Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Kwabena Nsiah, signed the letter dated May 29, 2023, which was addressed to the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa.
The notification, he said, had been necessitated by the judgment of the Supreme Court (SC) dated May 17, 2023.
He, therefore, requested the EC Chairperson to take the appropriate consequential action as required by law.
