to register to vote or be qualified to be elected as Assembly Members in the Lower Manya Krobo District Assembly.”
Meanwhile, ahead of the injunction, a petition signed by the President of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs and overlord of Manya Krobo Traditional Council, dated 12 December 2022, asking the EC to reconsider mainstreaming the district-level elections in Lower Manya Krobo with the national routine
Referencing, the petition said, the District Levels Elections in Lower Manya Krobo deviated in 2010, when a case involving the same election was brought before the Supreme Court in Accra over the creation of new electoral areas and designation unit by the Electoral Commission.
“…we wish to kindly plead and appeal to the Electoral Commission of Ghana to reconsider its decision in the conduct of the Lower Manya Krobo District Level Elections in January 2023 to enable the district to join the nationwide District Level Elections in 2023.”
The EC has set 17 January 2023 for the District Elections for the 7th Assembly for the Municipality under the 1992 Constitution.
While almost all old District Assemblies are about to complete their 7th Assembly under the fourth Republic, Lower Manya Krobo is yet to go into elections.
This followed a Supreme Court case in 2010, which ordered the EC to exclude Lower Manya Krobo from the election until a determination of a case filed by Charles Mate Korle and Azago Kwesitsu I, against the EC over relocating six electoral areas to Shai Osudoku District as a result of the passage of LI 1983 of 2010.
This break has since placed Lower Manya Krobo District Assembly Elections off the national calendar.