{"id":253941,"date":"2016-10-02T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T06:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253941"},"modified":"2016-10-02T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T06:02:02","slug":"we-didnt-trap-ec-with-filing-fee-ppp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253941","title":{"rendered":"We didn\u2019t trap EC with filing fee \u2013 PPP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Director of Operations for the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has stated that the party had no intention of tricking\u00a0the Electoral Commission, when it presented its filing fee to the election management body, despite its own lawsuit against the fee.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0this on Citi FM\u2019s news analysis programme, The Big Issue.<\/p>\n

According to Nana Owusu, who’s also the PPP parliamentary candidate for Efutu Constituency, by presenting their nomination forms with the filing fees, the PPP was only doing what was required by law.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the tricks that exist, we didn\u2019t trick the EC. The law states that we bring those things. They returned the filing fees of all the parties that came after us. What was the intent? I cannot take a decision and take my independent decision not to take what is required,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He also said, \u201cIf the EC didn\u2019t return the filing fee of the PPP, but returned that of other parties, why is it saying that it thought the case had been withdrawn from court. Where in this world can anyone accept this explanation? The PPP isn\u2019t broke, our issue is with the process under which the fee was set.\u201d<\/p>\n

On September 19, the PPP filed a suit at the High Court seeking an interlocutory injunction to prevent the EC from receiving the nominations in protest against the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary aspirants.<\/p>\n

When some of the aspirants went to the offices of the Commission on Thursday (September 29), the EC said that it would not accept the fees until the court rules on the substantive matter.<\/p>\n

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Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, PPP Chairman and team presenting Nduom’s forms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, when the PPP\u2019s chairman, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, presented the filing fee of the party\u2019s flagbearer, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, the EC Chairperson accepted it and refused to return it.<\/p>\n

Justifying her decision <\/a><\/strong><\/span>to accept the fee, the\u00a0EC chairperson, Charlotte Osei, \u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cI thought they had withdrawn the case. That was the impression.\u201d<\/p>\n

PPP could face contempt over filing fee submission \u2013 Ndebugri\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) risks being cited for contempt of court <\/a><\/strong><\/span>for presenting its filing fee to the Electoral Commission (EC), despite being the very entity to place an injunction on the process, a private legal practitioner, John Ndebugri has said.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen in court, what the impact of today\u2019s incident, will have on the substantive case in court.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Director of Operations for the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has stated that the party had no intention of tricking\u00a0the Electoral Commission, when it presented its filing fee to the election management body, despite its own lawsuit against the fee. He said\u00a0this on Citi FM\u2019s news analysis programme, The Big Issue. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[2647,2648,58,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253941","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=253941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}