THE LAW ON CHIEFTAINCY ENDORSEMENT OF POLITICIANS & POLITICAL PARTIES

Article 276(1) of the 1992 Constitution: A chief shall not take part in active party politics and any chief wishing to do so and seeking election to Parliament shall abdicate his stool or skin.   In Elorm Kwame Gorni v. Attorney General and National House of Chiefs Suit No. J1/08/2020: The Supreme Court reasoned that those other statements or particular portions of a statement where a Chief is heard to endorse the person of the candidate or his party, by declaring their preferential support for the election of the candidate or his party or urging voters to vote for them are the kind of "taking sides" in a partisan political contest that, as we have opined, Article 276(1) disapproves of.