After the MP’s attorneys abandoned an appeal attempting to invoke supervisory jurisdiction, the Cape Coast High Court will decide on the election petition challenging his eligibility as Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Joe Gyaakye Quayson.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday requested that an application seeking its supervisory authority in a case where the Cape Coast High Court is scheduled to rule on a petition challenging the Assin North MP’s eligibility to be withdrawn.
Due process was not followed, according to the apex court. The MP’s attorneys later withdrew the motion, clearing the way for the Cape Coast High Court to decide on the case on Wednesday.
This comes after lawyers representing Joe Gyaakye Quayson, the Member of Parliament for Assin North, withdrew an application attempting to use the Supreme Court’s supervisory authority to interpret key constitutional articles.
Justin Pwavra Teriwajah, the MP’s lawyer, had attempted unsuccessfully to have the Cape Coast High Court, which was hearing his client’s election case, send Article 94, Clause (2a) of the 1992 Constitution to the Supreme Court for interpretation.
After the MP’s counsel withdrew the motion, it was dismissed by a five-member Supreme Court presided by Justice Yaw Apau.
The justices told the lawyer that he should have officially asked to the High Court to have the constitutional clause referred to the Supreme Court for interpretation and that if he refused, there would have been reasons to send it to the Supreme Court.
The MP was fined GH5,000 as a result of his actions.
Source: myjoyonline
