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The All-People’s Congress (APC) is preparing to take the recently passed Constitutional Amendment Bill to court, challenging the legality of the process through which the changes to Sierra Leone’s Constitution were approved.
APC Flagbearer Aspirant Ady Macauley disclosed the party’s position, stating that the APC’s next course of action would be to seek judicial intervention over what he described as the “purported amendment” of the national Constitution.
“Our next line of action is to go to the court on the purported amendment of our national Constitution,” Macauley said.
The planned legal action follows concerns raised by the opposition party over the parliamentary process surrounding the passage of the Constitutional Amendment Bill.
At the centre of the APC’s concerns are questions about the constitutional procedure followed in Parliament and whether the required voting threshold for constitutional amendments was properly met.
The party has previously expressed objections to aspects of the legislative process, maintaining that changes to the country’s supreme law must comply with the constitutional requirements governing such amendments.
Macauley’s statement now signals a possible shift from political objections to formal legal action, with the APC expected to ask the courts to examine whether the parliamentary process was conducted in accordance with the 1991 Constitution.
Should the party proceed with the challenge, the judiciary could be called upon to determine the legality and constitutionality of the amendment process.
Further details on the specific provisions being challenged and the grounds upon which the APC intends to base its case are expected as the party moves to pursue its stated course of action.
