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| Following a court decision, NPP keeps its seat in Zabzugu. |
A parliamentary election petition brought by Mohammed Abdul Somed Gunu, a candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), against Savelugu constituency member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was dismissed by the High Court in Tamale.
The ruling NPP parliamentary candidate filed a petition to contest the results after Abdul Jacob Iddrisu of the NDC was named the victor of the Savelugu parliamentary election in 2020 by the Electoral Commission.
The petitioner requested that the court declare the election results invalid on the grounds that it was won by the NDC candidate despite numerous irregularities, frauds, and overvotes.
However, the Tamale High Court, presided over by Justice Daniel Obeng, decided on Friday, January 20, 2023, that the petitioner's claims were merely procedural mistakes and had no bearing on the election's outcome, so the Electoral Commission's declaration of the results was valid.
In light of this, the court ordered the petitioner to pay the elected Member of Parliament and the Electoral Commission, respectively, sums of GH40,000 and GH20,000.
The petition Umar Alhassan, a Zabzugu NDC candidate for the 2020 parliamentary elections, filed against John Bennam Jabaah, the district's elected member of parliament, has also been dismissed by the court in a separate case.
