Supreme Court Dismisses Bagbin's Application on Four Declared Vacant Seats
Kenneth Ashong 
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by the Speaker of Parliament asking the court to vacate its ruling that held the Speaker’s declaration of four seats in Parliament vacant.
In a ruling on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, a five-member panel of the court held that the Speaker’s application amounted to a “misinformation and misapprehension of the law.”
According to the court, the Speaker’s submission that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter was misconceived because the matter in question was clear case of constitutional interpretation.
“It is therefore misinformation and mis-apprehension of law for the applicant to represent that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to give interpretation on a provision of the constitution that has attracted two different meanings,” the court held.
Speaker Bagbin’s application aimed to nullify the Supreme Court’s decision that temporarily halted his ruling on the four seats.
The Speaker also sought to set aside a writ filed by Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, which had requested judicial intervention to prevent the Speaker from issuing further declarations on the disputed seats.
