Injunction to Stop NPP Delegates Conference

By Justice Dzido On Jul 18, 2025

There is confusion over an application for interlucotory injunction supposedly filed at the High Court in Accra by two card bearing members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) against the holding of the Party’s Extra Ordinary National Delegates Conference scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday July 19, 2025.

The names of plaintiffs given on the writ are the Shamsudeen Iddrisu of house number WA 55 Moshi Fong, Walewale and Boateng Kwadwo of house number BA 122 Bantama.

Both plaintiffs argue that the NPP should be stopped by Court from holding the Conference tomorrow because the Party has violated its constitution by failing to organise Constituency and Regional Delegates’ Conferences, which by the Party’s Constitution, argue are mandatory prerequisites to prelude the convening a National Delegates’ Conference.

The writ was dated July 17, 2025 but on the same day it because a subject of news discussions, one of the supposed petitioners, Shamsudeen Iddrisu, issued a statement to disassociate himself from it and said he had never instructed his lawyers to file any injunction on his behalf.

The statement read:

My attention has been drawn to a writ of summons issued in my name with my address from the Walewale Constituency.

I entreat the public to disregard the writ as I have not instructed any lawyer to do the on my behalf.

As a committed member of the NPP, I have absolute respect for the decisions of the National Council and would not use the courts to undermine such decisions. We are all looking forward to the National Delegates Conference this weekend at the University of Ghana.

God bless the NPP.

Signed

Shamsudeen Iddrisu

On same day, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the Party, Divine Otoo Agorhom who serves as Chairman of the Accommodation Committee for the Extra Ordinary National Delegates Conference, said no court had ordered an injunction against the programme and it would come off as scheduled.

“We met even today, and as at the time I was leaving the stadium and as at the time I was leaving to your studio here, nothing of such has come to the notice of the committee.

“So as far as I am concerned, we have a conference coming on Saturday and nothing is changing. Nothing of such has come to our notice as we speak,” Divine Otoo Agorhom told Channel One television.

Portions of the writ reads:

“Counsel for and on behalf of the Plaintilfs/Applicants herein praying the Honourable Court for an Order of Interlocutory Injunction restraining the Defendant/Respondent herein from organising the Extra ordinary National Delegates Conference scheduled to take place at the University of Ghana Stadium, Accra from 18th to 20th July, 2025 pending the final determination of the instant suit in terms of the accompanying affidavit.

“Any such further order or orders as this Honourable Court may seem fit,” it added.

In his affidavit in support of the application, Kwadwo Boateng wrote among others that:

That I am a card bearing member of the Defendant in the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. That I have attached a copy of my New Patriotic Party (NPP) card and marked same as Exhibit BK 1.
That the actions, conducts, membership, struct ire, organisation, procedures and activities of the Defendant/Respondent are governed by he Constitution of the New Patriotic Party (hereinafter called “The Constitution”). That 1 have attached a copy of the NPP Constitution to this affidavit and marked same as Exhibit BK 2.
That per the Constitution, in every year, at least four (4) weeks prior to the Regional Annual Delegates Conference, there shall be a Constituency Annual Delegates Conference organised by the Party in every Constituency.
That per the Constitution, in every year, at leal.t four (4) weeks prior to the National Annual Delegates Conference, there shall be a Regional Annual Delegates Conference organised by the Party in every Region.
That the Constitution further provides that the National Annual Delegates Conference shall meet once every year, at least four (4) weeks after the last of the Regional Annual Delegates Conference