Don’t Field Gyakye Quayson For Assin North Seat Again – NPP Cautions NDC

A legal practitioner, Gary Nimako has advised the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to field a new candidate in the event of a byelection in the Assin North Constituency of the Central Region.

The Supreme Court held that James Gyakye Quayson was not qualified to contest for the position of MP at the time of filing his nomination forms in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.

The court further held that the Electoral Commission erred when it allowed Quayson to stand for the Assin North seat in the 2020 general election when he had not shown evidence of renunciation of his Canadian citizenship.

The NDC has pledged to support the embattled former MP to reclaim the seat anytime a byelection is held.

“The full weight of the party, including the Minority Caucus in Parliament, will be put behind Honourable Quayson so as to ensure an even more resounding victory for him in the upcoming byelection,” Fifi Kwetey, the general secretary of the NDC wrote in a statement.
Wrong move

Nimako said that will be suicidal.

“But if I were to advise them [NDC], I would have told them to look for a different candidate and put the person up for elections,” Nimako said on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (18 May).

“The gentleman knew all the way in September to October, at the time of filing, that he has not been given a certificate of renunciation, but he went and fill the EC form that he owes no allegiance to any country than Ghana,” he told host Kwaku Nhyira-Addo.

Listen to Gary Nimako in the attached audio clip below: 

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