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The proxy war that Irene Naa Torshie Addo, Member of Parliament for Tema West, has been waging against Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah in attempt to make Tema West off-limits for Mr. Ahenkorah has taken a nosedive.

The fast track high court in Accra has delivered judgment in the mischievous court case that was brought against his legitimacy to stand for Unit Committee elections in Tema West in his favor.

Mr. Ahenkorah, The Enquirer is reliably informed, has been cleared to run for the election. The clearance is an important setup for Ahenkorah, who is believed to be using the unit Committee election as stepping stone to become MP for Tema West.

In this regard, unseating Naa Torshie Addo for the 2016 Parliament election for Tema West is a mission, which is still a good goal for Carlos Kingsley Ahekorah.

The judgment, Enquirer heard belatedly, was given by the court, presided over by Justice A.K. Yeboah, at the Fast Track High Court on Tuesday, this week.

Yesterday, attempts by The Enquirer, to obtain a copy of the judgment from the court, was fruitless as the court’s clerk explained that the judgment had not been typed yet.

Confirming that Mr. Ahenkorah had been cleared however, the clerk broadly stated that some reliefs sought by plaintiffs in the case were given while others were not given.

In the case, three plaintiffs – Nana Yaw Ntim, Duane Augustine Holdbrook, and Edward Osei Nyarko, sought to stop Mr. Ahenkorah from standing for the Unit Committee elections on the basis of bogus claims that he had illegally transferred his vote from Tema Central to Tema West.

According to the complainants, in the so-called dodgy transfer of vote, Mr. Ahenkorah had acted together with the Electoral Commission.

Originally scheduled for the Human Rights Court in Accra, Enquirer had long found out that the plaintiffs in the case were hatchet men for Naa Torshie Addo, the Tema West MP, who was remote controlling them.

Naa Toshie Addo’s interest in the case, The Enquirer explained earlier, was rooted in a fear if Carlos Ahenkorah gained a footing in Tema West, e would contest her in the party’s Parliamentary Primary for 2016 and unseat her.

Consequently, she had rallied the plaintiffs to do damage to Ahenkorah. In an ensuing proxy war, Naa Toshie had also recruited the services of a scoundrel newspaper, which gloried in the habit of splashing its front page with damaging lies about Mr. Ahenkorah.

One such lie that Naa Torshie Addo had published in that newspaper by proxy was the claim that also Ahenkorah was also a passport fraudster that lie, however, collapsed very quickly.

A bighearted NPP member and popular – darling of the party’s following in Tema, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkoah, had been dragged into a fraudulent vote transfer allegation after he had transferred his vote from Tema Central to Tema West.

The three plaintiffs, who had brandished the allegation, had insisted that Mr. Ahenkorah connived with the Electoral Commission to falsely transfer his vote from Tema Central, to Tema West – where he has registered to contest the Unit Committee election.

Nana yaw Ntim, a resident of Baatsona, Duane Augustine and Edward Osei Nyarko, had consequently prayed the Human Rights Court in Accra to stop Mr. Ahenkorah from contesting the Unit Committee election in Tema West.

In their complaint, the three had purported that the illegitimate transfer of Mr. Ahenkorah’s vote from Tema Central to Tema West, was chiefly perpetrated by the Tema Metro Director of the Electoral Commission, Watson Tizor Apentsui.

Consequently, Mr. Apentsui and the Electoral Commission had been cited as respondents, along with Carlos Ahenkorah.

In the buildup to the Court date, however, The Enquirer had found out that the allegation and follow-up suit was a crafty set-up against Mr. Carlos Ahenkorah and his suspected nurse of the ambition to contest the Tema West Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NPP in 2016.

As Tema West is an NPP stronghold, the allegation that Mr. Ahenkorah was an election fraudster who ought not to be allowed to favored Naa Torshie Addo, the incumbent MP.

Per the electoral laws, one cannot run for any election in a constituency where he is not registered as a voter.

Mr. Ahenkorah, a charismatic member of the NPP in Tema, initially had his vote to Tema West to enable him contest unit committee election in Sakumono.

A popular hit with NPP followers in Tema, because of his generosity, this simple attempt to transfer his vote is what has led to Mr. Ahenkorah being branded as an electoral fraud.

Tema West being an NPP stronghold has long been an oyster for Naa Torshie Addo. However, there has for a long time, been a groundswell of support for Carlos Ahenkorah’s assumption of the NPP legislative ticket, even as Naa Toshie Addo’s popularity wanes.

It was to counter a foreseeable future defeat at the party Parliamentary primary by Ahenkorah that Naa Toshie Addo resorted to the proxy war using Nana Yaw Ntim, Duane Augustine Holdbrook, and Edward Osei Nyarko as hatchet men.

However, even though in the David versus Goliath bout, the bet was on Goliath, David won, after the court had decided.