The High Court in Nalerigu in Ghana’s North East Region has issued another interim injunction stopping the New Patriotic Party (NPP) from conducting polling station executive elections in the Bunkpurugu Constituency.
The order, delivered on June 1, 2026, was issued by Justice Samuel Bright Acquah following a suit filed by Konlan Yenuyiab and 78 other party members against the NPP and another defendant.
After hearing submissions from counsel for both parties, the court ordered that the NPP, its agents, and anyone acting on its behalf must not proceed with any election-related activities in the Bunkpurugu Constituency until further notice.
As part of its ruling, the court also directed the Constituency Council of Elders and the Regional Council of Elders to mediate on the dispute, in line with an agreement reached by counsel for the parties.
The injunction follows ballot papers and voter registers being destroyed in the Bunkpurugu Constituency on May 10 after tensions erupted during the NPP’s polling station executive elections, despite an earlier court injunction halting the exercise.
The disturbances occurred after party officials allegedly proceeded with the elections even though the High Court in Nalerigu had restrained the NPP from conducting the polls in the constituency for 10 days.
The disturbances occurred after party officials allegedly proceeded with the elections even though the High Court in Nalerigu had restrained the NPP from conducting the polls in the constituency for 10 days.
The injunction followed a suit filed by Konlan Yenuyiab and 16 others, who challenged the process over the alleged wrongful disqualification of some aspirants and claimed breaches of the party’s internal rules and principles of natural justice.
Source: citinewsroom.com
