The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC’s) Director of Legal Affairs, Abraham Amaliba, has voiced his displeasure with the Supreme Court’s decision to maintain the removal of James Gyakye Quayson’s name from Parliamentary records.

On Tuesday, July 25, a nine-member Supreme Court bench unanimously rejected an appeal James Gyakye Quayson, a member of Parliament for Assin North, had filed to challenge the ruling that his name should be removed from Parliamentary records.

After giving a ruling declaring the procedures leading to his election and swearing-in invalid, the Apex Court ordered Parliament to remove his name from the records of Parliament.

Lawyers for Gyakye Quayson filed the review application and a substituted statement of the case on June 29 and July 5, respectively, on the grounds that the decision of the court was against a previous binding decision of the court and made up of fundamental and basic errors.

“The Supreme Court indicated to us that our grounds were not sufficient enough for them to overturn their own ruling. We believed that the Supreme Court erred, which is why we went to court, and we needed to exhaust the entire process. Now that we have come to the end of the road, we will now be satisfied that we have explored all avenues,” Mr. Amaliba told Citi FM.

Meanwhile, James Gyakey Quayson is facing charges of perjury and forgery bothering on whether he had renounced his Canadian citizenship at the time he filed his nomination forms to contest the 2020 polls.

It follows Supreme Court ruling that the Electoral Commission acted unconstitutionally in allowing Mr Quayson to contest the 2020 parliamentary election without proof of him renouncing his Canadian Citizenship.