Hajia Zuwera secures injunction against NPP Walewale Parliamentary results

The Minister of Gender and Social Protection and aspirant in the just-ended NPP Parliamentary primaries at the Walewale Constituency, Hajia Lariba Zuwera Abudu, has secured an interim injunction against the declaration of Dr. Kabiru Tia Mahama as the winner.

The Electoral Commission declared Dr. Kabiru Tia Mahama the winner of Saturday’s election, having garnered 345 votes against Hajia’s 338 votes.

She, however, filed an action at the Tamale High Court alleging electoral irregularities and malpractices, citing the fact that dead people were even on record to have voted in the election.

According to Hajia, these and others led to her agents calling for a recount of the ballots owing to an issue about some nineteen (19) rejected ballots.

The Gender Minister is thus confident that, having scrutinized those rejected ballots, she should have rather been the winner and not Dr. Mahama.

As such, the court, presided over by Justice Richard Kogyapwah, thus ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) not to submit the name of Dr. Mahama as the candidate elected for the constituency.

In a media briefing after the court session, counsel for the applicant, Lawyer Sylvester Isang, revealed that during the election, a person introduced as an EC official came into the arena and picked some of the rejected votes and added to the valid votes of two of the contestants.

According to him, the court has injuncted Dr. Kabiru from holding himself as the parliamentary candidate elect until the outcome of the case.

The injunction will last for 10 days, thus the lawyer further indicated that his side has an injunction application on notice, which would be moved even before the 10 days elapse.