The Nalerigu High Court has placed an interlocutory injunction on the upcoming National Democratic Congress (NDC) regional executive election in the North East Region, which was scheduled for November 14, 2026.
This judicial intervention follows a period of intense internal friction within the party’s Nalerigu-Gambaga constituency. For the past days, two factions have been locked in a public dispute over the selection of five co-opted constituency executive members.
The constituency chairman and secretary previously petitioned the national secretariat, alleging that an alternative list of members was being imposed on them by external parties. Conversely, a rival group led by the vice chairman claimed that the chairman’s faction walked out of a meeting and that they had followed constitutional procedures to form a quorum and select a legitimate list.
The matter escalated to the High Court after the constituency chairman, Safianu Akunloya Akukua, and six others filed a suit against the party and seven other defendants. In their affidavit, the applicants argued that allowing the allegedly “illegally co-opted” members to participate in the regional elections would cause irreversible damage to the party’s democratic process. They contended that they had exhausted all internal party grievance mechanisms without receiving a response.
Presiding judge, Justice Samuel Bright Acquah, noted that the case presented a “triable issue” regarding the potential breach of the party’s own constitution. The court subsequently granted an ex parte motion restraining the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th defendants from voting or participating in the regional executive elections.
The court emphasised that this intervention was necessary to maintain peace within the party, as the applicants argued that once the elections were conducted with unqualified voters, the harm to the integrity of the process could not be undone.
By Solomon Kwame Kanaluwe
