Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako is in court to challenge the removal of the Electoral Commission chairperson Charlotte Osei.

Mr. Baako who is arguing the Chief Justice led committee that recommended her removal exceeded its powers has filed a writ praying the Supreme Court to reverse the decision through his lawyer Samson Lardy Anyenini on Wednesday, 11th July 2018.

Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies – Amadu Sulley and Georgina Amankwaah – were sacked by president Akufo-Addo a week ago on grounds of “incompetence and misbehavior.”

According to the state-owned Daily Graphic, “the 18 reliefs being sought by Mr Baako include a declaration that upon a true and proper construction of Article 146 (1) of the 1992 Constitution, a petition for the removal of the chairperson of the EC, pursuant to the provisions of Article 146, was only valid if such a petition alleged stated misbehaviour or incompetence relating to the performance of the core constitutional functions of the chairperson of the EC.

“He is also seeking a declaration that the finding by the Chief Justice (CJ) that a prima facie case had been made out in respect of six allegations contained in the petition for the removal of Mrs Osei pursuant to Article 146 of the Constitution and which allegations were not founded on acts of stated misbehaviour or incompetence against Mrs Osei in the performance of her core functions as Chairperson of the EC was unconstitutional, null, void and of no effect.

The veteran journalist also wants the apex court of the land to rule that the recommendations for the removal of Mrs Osei upon which the President acted were inconsistent with Articles 43 (1)(a), 44 (2), 45 and 146 (1) of the 1992 Constitution and for that matter, null, void and of no effect.

“To that effect, Mr Baako is seeking a declaration that on the basis of the defective nature of the petition, Mrs Osei is and remains the Chairperson of the EC,” the newspaper reported.