Date For Assin North MP-elect Swearing-in Announced

The Member Parliament-elect for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson will be sworn in on Tuesday, July 4.

He will be sworn in by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin.

This follows his landslide victory on Tuesday, June 27, in the Assin North by-election.

 

 

 

Officials of the Electoral Commission declared Quayson the victor, raising his hand to signal the status as NDC officials broke into their ‘Revo, Revo, has come to stay’ chorus.

Mr Quayson was ejected from Parliament last month following a Supreme Court decision to uphold the annulment of the 2020 constituency election by a High Court.

Mr Quayson, despite facing a criminal trial over the same dual citizenship allegations that made him lose the seat, won again with a wider margin of 17,245 votes representing 57.56% of valid votes.

His main rival, Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party polled 12,630 or 42.15% of valid votes to place second, while the Liberal Party of Ghana’s Bernice Enam Sefanu polled only 87 votes or 0.29%.

With a turnout of 74.23%, officials of the Electoral Commission indicated that the turnout was very high.

Mr Quayson is being tried for forgery and perjury after he was charged by the Attorney-General’s Office.

He is also accused of deceiving a public officer and knowingly making a false declaration when he filed nominations to contest in the 2020 election when he had not renounced his Canadian citizenship.

However, he has filed a motion on notice at the High Court for a stay of proceedings, pending an appeal.

The applicant is praying the court for an order to stay the proceedings in the court pending the determination of the appeal filed in the Court on June 27, 2023.

 

 

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