[ 2016-01-29 ]

Onsy Nkrumah seeks CPP congress injunction
CPP presidential candidate hopeful, Onsy Nkrumah,
has filed for an injunction against the party’s
national congress slated for Saturday January 30,
2016.

Onsy Nkrumah argues he has been wrongfully
disqualified from the party’s flagbearer race.

Onsy was disqualified for presenting a cheque to
the party for the payment of his filing fee of
150,000 cedis.

The rules required him to present a banker’s
draft or cash. But Onsy says the disqualification
is unfair.

He is asking the court to order the party to
re-instate him in the race.

He further alleges in his statement of claim to
the Human Rights Division of the High Court that
he was “manhandled and was only lucky that some
good Samaritans were around to whisk him away from
the hands from the hands of the [CPP] who had
planned to block his attempt at filling his
nominations forms.”

According to the party, Onsy - who claims to be a
son of Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah -
presented a fraudulent cheque.

CPP General Secretary, Nii Armah Akomfrah
explained a few days after Onsy’s
disqualification the odds were stuck against the
presidential candidate hopeful.

“We worked around it, we tried to find a way,
and in the end we could not admit him because
there was no sufficient fund to be able to admit
him," Mr Akomfrah explained.

The Court has set February 10, 2016 to hear
arguments by both parties.

Click audio file to listen to Onsy Nkrumah's
allegations against CPP.

Source - Myjoyonline

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