{"id":256869,"date":"2016-10-10T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256869"},"modified":"2016-10-10T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:23:52","slug":"well-strip-ec-boss-naked-for-disqualifying-us-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256869","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll strip EC boss ‘naked\u2019 for disqualifying us \u2013 NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Democratic Party (NDP), has threatened to expose the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, following the party\u2019s disqualification from the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of former President Rawlings, was disqualified by the Electoral Commission for failing to meet some requirements of the electoral laws ahead of the December polls.<\/p>\n

She was disqualified together with twelve (12) other presidential aspirants<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In explaining the NDP’s disqualification, the EC explained that, “The Commission is unable to accept Mrs. Rawlings\u2019 nomination because the number of subscribers to her forms did not meet the requirements of Regulation 7 (2) (b) of CI 94.\u00a0One 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\u00a0Salifu Abdulai\u00a0District: Nanumba South,\u00a0Voter ID no: 6617004814 (28.3.2012),\u00a0Voter ID no: 2126900022 (04.8.2014).”<\/p>\n

But according to the Deputy Communications \u00a0Director of the NDP, Ernest Owusu Bempah, the disqualification of the party\u2019s flagbearer is a deliberate attempt by the EC to ensure the NDP does to contest in the elections.<\/p>\n

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Ernest Owusu Bempah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis is a deliberate attempt by Charlotte Osei and the EC to disqualify us… they should clap for themselves for tarnishing the image of our multiparty democracy in the country, and deliberately running into the pockets of the government of the day and trying to please their pay masters,\u201d Mr Bempah told Richard Sky on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Owusu Bempah challenged the Electoral Commission\u2019s reasons for his party\u2019s disqualification stating that, the EC must provide additional information on the basis for their disqualification.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t just come and disqualify somebody because you have stated reasons. This is totally unacceptable and as a party we are going to take a strong decision on this particular one and we are going to go out there and make sure that if we can fight this to the highest level; we will do that to make sure we will never allow this one to pass. It is totally unacceptable, we know as far as we are concerned as a party that, we filled the document and we provided all the information that they [EC] needed, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she [Charlotte Osei] wants to go that tangent, we will \u00a0strip her naked in this country for everybody to know.. we are all ready to play that game. She should come out and tell us who she really is,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings in a Facebook post after the announcement of her disqualification said “the NDP is not backing down”.
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