Ghana: New Twist in Kwesimintsim NPP Case - As Baidoe Ansah Joins Battle

High Court-Sekondi — The case in which an aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kwesimintsim Constituency in the Western Region, Joseph Mensah, is challenging his purported disqualification from contesting the sitting Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Baidoe-Ansah, through a parliamentary primary has taken yet another dramatic legal dimension.

This time round, while the Sekondi High Court, presided over by Justice Edward Amoako-Asante, had fixed July 4, 2016 to commence hearing the case, the sitting MP, Joseph Baidoe-Ansah, who is not a party to the suit, has filed a different writ at an Accra High Court for an order of consolidation to fuse the case in which the disqualified aspirant is challenging his purported disqualification from the race to contest him (the sitting MP).

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