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Supreme Court rejects Oppong Nkrumah’s review application

From Daily Graphic · () English

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  • Ghana’s Supreme Court unanimously dismissed former Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s application to review a single Justice’s refusal to grant an interlocutory injunction.
  • A five-member panel said the application failed to meet the threshold for exercising the court’s review jurisdiction and called it unmeritorious.
  • The court rejected a request for an adjournment and said the full reasons would be available at the registry on Sept. 7, 2026.

Ghana’s Supreme Court has rejected former Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s attempt to reopen a ruling that denied him an interlocutory injunction. A five-member panel dismissed the review application unanimously, finding that it did not meet the legal threshold for the court to exercise its review jurisdiction.

The law is in our bosom and we don’t need your help as far as the law is concerned.

— Justice Emmanuel Yonny KulendiThe presiding Justice rejected the request for an adjournment and said the panel could determine the legal issues without further arguments.

The panel was presided over by Justice Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi. Justices Richard Adjei-Frimpong and Gbiel Simon Suurbaareh were also among its members. The court described the application as “unmeritorious” and said its full reasons would be available at the registry on Sept. 7, 2026.

Oppong Nkrumah’s lawyer, Frank Davies, had asked the court to reverse a decision by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, who dismissed the injunction application dated Aug. 21, 2026. Davies sought an adjournment at the start of proceedings, saying he had received the Attorney-General’s opposing affidavit and statement of case at about 5 p.m. the previous day and had only conferred with his client after 8 p.m.

Unmeritorious.

— Supreme CourtThe court used this word to characterize Oppong Nkrumah’s review application.

Justice Adjei-Frimpong questioned the need for additional filings, saying the issues appeared to be non-factual. Davies argued that legal issues in the reply affidavit went “to the very heart” of the application and required a response. Justice Kulendi nevertheless declined the adjournment. He noted that Oppong Nkrumah’s statement of case ran to 32 pages and his supporting affidavit contained 40 paragraphs, while the Attorney-General had responded with a 15-paragraph affidavit and a 13-page statement of case.

To the very heart.

— Frank DaviesOppong Nkrumah’s lawyer said legal issues in the reply affidavit required a response because they went to the core of the application.

Kulendi said the court could decide the legal questions without further submissions. “The law is in our bosom and we don’t need your help as far as the law is concerned,” he said, before directing Davies to proceed with the application. Davies then argued that Justice Pwamang had made “patent and salient errors” in dealing with legal vacation and criminal proceedings. The court rejected the review request.

Patent and salient errors.

— Frank DaviesDavies described the alleged errors he said appeared on the face of the single Justice’s ruling.
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Originally published by Daily Graphic in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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