"Ashietey's attitude embarrassing; he has wasted everybody's time"

Europa

June 15, 2016 1:37 PM

Mr. Ashietey has been challenging the eligibility of the party’s parliamentary nominee for the constituency Zanetor Rawlings.

Nii Armah Ashietey

Lawyer for former President Jerry Rawling’s daughter has accused Nii Armah Ashietey, Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle of wasting everybody’s time with the application he filed at the Supreme Court seeking for judicial review of the apex court’s ruling stopping the hearing of his case at the High Court.

Mr. Ashietey has been challenging the eligibility of the party’s parliamentary nominee for the constituency Zanetor Rawlings. He withdrew the case on Wednesday June 15 after he and his lawyers failed to convince the Supreme Court to reconsider their ruling.

Speaking to journalists after the hearing, lawyer for Zanetor Rawlings Mr Godwin Tameko said “He [Gary Nimako] has wasted everybody’s … time and he should stop that kind of practice …As you are aware already, it’s out of time for him to file his address to the court but we want expeditious trial, we are not going to wait for him”.“At all material time, he knew that the path that he has taken will waste the court’s time and today in his speech, you saw how embarrassing it was, how embarrassing … to withdraw his application. It’s so regrettable that we have to go by it. I am in pain as to the attitudes that he has taken …he has wasted everybody’s time.”He added: “As we speak, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Ralwings is the parliamentary candidate-elect of the National Democratic Congress for Klottey Korley, nothing will change it. She is going to be presented to the Electoral Commission”.“They [Ashittey and Nimako] better come for [the legal] battle, let’s do battle and let the court decide the matter so we go our way,” he said.

Zanetor’s candidacy has been challenged by incumbent Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle, Nii Armah Ashitey, whom she beat to the party’s ticket for the November 2016 parliamentary poll.

According to Nii Armah Ashietey, Zanetor is not a registered voter and thus her election must be declared null and void.

She however became a registered voter after she registered with the Electoral Commission in the recent limited voter registration exercise.

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