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Disqualified aspirant to drag Volta NPP to court over 'illegal vote'

George Kofi Boateng, who was disqualified a week to the election, expressed regret that despite the court injunction, the election was held.

A disqualified Volta regional chairman aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is heading back to court, after he secured a court injunction on Friday against the election, but it was ignored.

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He described the move as a "stab in back" of democracy in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM.

He said: “I think that it is not proper for a group of persons who were ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction to halt a process but decided to flout the court order and go ahead with that process. I am not happy at all because I see it as a stab in the back of democracy.”

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According to him, NPP was "duly served. The party chairperson was served by the Hohoe Court bailiff. The proof of service is there to show.”

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