Lawyers for Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, the
flag bearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), have said they will file a
fresh suit against the Electoral Commission (EC) over her disqualification
today, Thursday October 27.Earlier in the day, an Accra High Court had
dismissed the NDP’s case which had prayed the court to compel the EC to
reinstate former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings as a presidential
nominee in the December 7 polls.
The NDP filed reliefs for human rights
and judicial review of the decision by the Electoral Commission, but the court
dismissed the case, explaining that the NDP should have filed separate suits
instead of lumping the two.
Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings and her lawyers have
said they would file again, this time heeding the court’s direction to file
separate suits on the reliefs she is seeking.
It is recalled that Mrs
Agyeman-Rawlings was among 12 other presidential aspirants who were disqualified
by the EC for anomalies in their nomination forms.
Mrs Konadu
Agyeman-Rawlings was disqualified because “the number of subscribers to her
forms did not meet the requirements of Regulation 7 (2) (b) of CI 94.
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One subscriber on page 89 of her nomination forms is not a validly registered
voter and illegally registered twice and so is on the exclusion list of multiple
voters. Details are:
- Salifu Abdulai
District: Nanumba
South
Voter ID no: 6617004814 (28.3.2012)
Voter ID no: 2126900022
(04.8.2014). |
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