The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA ) has been ordered by court to put hold on its general elections, which was scheduled to come off today, August 8, 2023.
The postponement of the MUSIGA elections is as a result of an interlocutory injunction that has been placed on the exercise by an Accra High Court.
In a writ of summons dated August 7, 2023, the Plaintiffs, Doe Kwablah Seyram Nyamedi, and and Frederick Van Dyck, members of the union, state that the elections cannot be held because accounts have not been rendered for the past years.
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The writ also mentions the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), former MUSIGA President Bice ‘Obour’ Osei Kuffour as Defendants.
The third defendant is the Electoral Commission of Ghana, which has been tasked to organise the elections.Â
Peter Marfo, the Election Committee Chairman for the musicians union, told myjoyonline.com that he had been informed by the Electoral Commission that they could not conduct the elections due to injunction from the court.Â
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This would be the fifth time the elections have been postponed after the expiration of Obour’s tenure in 2019.Â
In 2019, the union was dragged to court by Ras Caleb Appiah-Levi, who served as the Accra Regional Chairman of MUSIGA, after alleging some irregularities concerning the electoral process. A High Court in Accra placed an interim injunction on the national elections by the union.
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In July 2023, the union warned its members against breaking away from the mother body.
The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) is the umbrella group  that unites all musicians in Ghana irrespective of their music genre.
Bice Osei Kuffour(Obour) was the former president of the Musicians Union of Ghana. He was elected on August 18, 2011, in Tamale in the Northern Region of the country. The other candidates were Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Nana Tuffour and Willi Roi.
Before Obour, Diana Hopeson served as the MUSIGA president between 2007 and 2011
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See writ of summons below:Â
