{"id":253657,"date":"2016-09-30T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253657"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:17:44","slug":"ec-accepts-ppps-filing-fee-refuses-to-return-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253657","title":{"rendered":"EC accepts PPP’s filing fee, refuses to return it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final day for submission of nomination forms at the Electoral Commission\u00a0(EC)\u00a0headquarters has seen a rather bizarre twist with the Commission accepting the filing fee of the Progressive People\u2019s Party’s (PPP) Flagbearer despite an interlocutory injunction placed on the process by the PPP itself.<\/p>\n

The PPP\u00a0filed a suit<\/strong><\/a><\/span> at the High Court in on September 19 seeking an interlocutory injunction to prevent the Commission\u00a0from receiving the nominations in protest of the EC’s much criticised increase in the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary aspirants.<\/p>\n

Yesterday [Thursday] the EC said it would not be accepting filing fees from the presidential and parliamentary aspirants because of the injunction.<\/p>\n

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Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, PPP Chairman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the EC however accepted the filing fee of the PPP flagberer, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, who was represented by the party’s Chairman, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hammond subsequently requested that the filing fee be returned but the EC Chair, Charlotte Osei, said it was too late to return the fee as\u00a0the PPP was aware of the legal implications yet still presented the fee in bank draft form, according to Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s Godwin Allotey.<\/p>\n

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The PPP Chairman explained that his party presented the forms, the suit notwithstanding, because\u00a0regulations \u201cindicated that all of the submission of nominations should be accompanied with the filing fee so we were complying with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Godwin Allotey also reported that moments later, the Flagbearer of the\u00a0Unity Development System Party (UDSP),\u00a0Richard Nixon Tetteh, also submitted nomination forms but the EC did not accept its filing fee.<\/p>\n

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The EC opened nominations earlier in\u00a0September<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and pegged the filing fees for presidential hopefuls at GHc 50,000 and that of parliamentary nominees at GHc 10,000.<\/p>\n

Some aggrieved parties subsequently asked the EC to review the amount describing it as \u201cexorbitant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom-led PPP followed its concerns with the suit<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0seeking the injunction to prevent the EC from receiving the nominations.<\/p>\n

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Photos: Godwin Allotey<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final day for submission of nomination forms at the Electoral Commission\u00a0(EC)\u00a0headquarters has seen a rather bizarre twist with the Commission accepting the filing fee of the Progressive People\u2019s Party’s (PPP) Flagbearer despite an interlocutory injunction placed on the process by the PPP itself. The PPP\u00a0filed a suit at the High Court in on September […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":253663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[2356,3,3033,12162],"class_list":["post-253657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-ppp","tag-the-electoral-commision-of-ghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}