Court stops NPP polling station elections in Bunkpurugu again
Justice Samuel Bright Acquah issued the interim injunction on June 1, 2026, after hearing lawyers for both sides in a case filed by Konlan Yenuyiab and 78 other party members.
A fresh attempt by the New Patriotic Party to conduct polling station executive elections in the Bunkpurugu Constituency has been stopped by the High Court in Nalerigu.
Justice Samuel Bright Acquah issued the interim injunction on June 1, 2026, after hearing lawyers for both sides in a case filed by Konlan Yenuyiab and 78 other party members.
The order bars the NPP, its agents and anyone acting for the party from carrying out any election-related activity in the constituency until further notice.
The court also directed the Constituency Council of Elders and the Regional Council of Elders to step in and mediate the dispute.
That directive followed an agreement between lawyers for the parties.
The latest injunction comes after earlier tensions in the constituency over the party’s polling station executive elections.
On May 10, ballot papers and voter registers were destroyed after confusion broke out during the exercise.
The disruption happened despite a previous order from the same High Court restraining the NPP from holding the elections in Bunkpurugu for 10 days.
Some party officials were alleged to have gone ahead with the process notwithstanding the earlier injunction.
The dispute began after Konlan Yenuyiab and 16 others challenged the conduct of the elections.
They claimed some aspirants had been wrongly disqualified and accused the party of breaching its internal rules and the principles of natural justice.
The new suit, now involving 79 plaintiffs, has once again halted the process while the dispute is addressed through court and internal party mediation.
