The Wenchi High Court has dismissed the election petition brought against Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, Member of Parliament for Techiman South in the Bono East Region.
The Member of Parliament floored opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the parliamentary election petition which sought to annul the result of the constituency in the 2020 general elections.
The High Court today November 30, 2022 dismissed the case brought before it to have the elections annulled for a possible rerun.
As part of its verdict on Wednesday the court also fined the main opposition party GHS100,000.
The 2020 Parliamentary Candidate for the party, Christopher Beyere Baasongti filed the petition against the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) and Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, the current MP for the techiman south who was declared winner.
NDC just like the presidential petition cited irregularities in collation of results and subsequent declaration as some of the reasons for the petition.
The party believed that the verdict was stolen for the NPP candidate by the elections management body for which they went to court hence wanted the election cancel for re-election.
However, the court after two years of trial threw out the case saying that it lacks merit.
source: theGhanaianvoice.com