[ 2016-11-10 ]

Director of Communications for the NDP, Ernest Owusu Bempah

EC boss disgraced over Supreme Court’s ruling - Owusu Bempah
The Director of Communications for the National
Democratic Party (NDP) Ernest Owusu Bempah claims
that the Chairperson of Electoral Commission (EC)
Mrs Charlotte Osei has been disgraced over the
final ruling by the Supreme Court on recent spate
of disqualifications.

The Presidential nominee of the party Nana Kondau
Agyemang Rawlings was part of 13 candidates who
were disqualified by the EC but a Supreme
Court’s ruling ordered the EC to allow the
candidates rectify the anomalies on their forms.

The Parliamentary candidate for Asante Akyem North
constituency said it was wrong for the EC to take
an entrenched position of not giving the
candidates the opportunity to be heard in the true
faith of natural justice.

Speaking on Abusua FM’s Abusua Nkommo hosted by
Kwame Adinkrah, he remarked that the ruling is a
victory for Ghana’s democracy and multi party
system.

Mr Bempah wondered why the EC chair was bent on
infringing the fundamental rights of the
candidates.

According to him, their candidate’s forms was
not freight with errors as propagated by the EC
and that they were ready to battle it out with the
EC if the courts had not ruled in the favour of
the candidates.

‘We were not surprised by the EC placing our
candidate on the ballot,… the disqualification
was based on assumption that the votes margin of
the NDC in Volta region will be split if Nana
Konadu is contesting in the race and Dr Papa Kwesi
Nduom also sweeping votes in the Central region.
Charlotte Osei and her other commissioners have
been disgraced by the Supreme Court ruling. The
ruling I think is a victory for our democracy and
victory for human rights in this country. We would
have battled it out with them if they had not
heeded to the Court’s ruling,’ he said.

Nana Konadu had the second position when the EC
balloted positions for the candidates on Wednesday
at its office in Accra.

The Spokesperson for NDP envisaged that they will
amass 70% in the Volta region.

‘We are happy that another Rawlings is appearing
on the ballot. Definitely Ghanaians in Volta
region will vote for Nana Konadu and vote against
President John Mahama, they should keep dreaming
that Volta is their world bank, we will take them
by surprise,’ he stated.

Source - Ultimatefm

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