The EC disqualifies Joan Cudjoe from the Amenfi Central Parliamentary competition.
Joan Cudjoe is no longer eligible to compete in the Amenfi Central parliamentary seat, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).
This is in response to a petition filed with the EC alleging that the Commission is prohibited from acknowledging Mrs. Cudjoe as the party’s parliamentary candidate by an order of interlocutory injunction that is still ongoing.
“It is ordered that until the final determination of the matter the affected parties are restrained as follows: a) The 1. Defendant/Respondent for holding herself out as the duly elected NDC Parliamentary candidate for the Amenfi Central Constituency.”
Samuel Tettey, the EC’s Deputy Chairman of Operations, wrote a letter that said this.
The petitioners had doubts about the candidate’s voter identification’s veracity.
It happened after Joana Gyan Cudjoe, the candidate, successfully filed her candidacy documents. Cudjoe was re-elected by delegates after this year’s primaries were cancelled.
The Parliamentary Candidate had to run in the party’s parliamentary primaries for the second time after the party at the national level nullified her nomination.
The election had been the focus of legal action at the High Court in Sekondi, according to a statement signed by General Secretary Fifi Kwetey, which is why it was annulled.
However, the victorious candidate in a new primary was re-elected by the electorate.
The EC clarified in the letter dated October 16 that the aforementioned court ruling “has neither been stayed nor vacated hence the Commission is bound by same.”
