The flagbearer of the Independent People’s Party (IPP), Kofi Akpaloo is awaiting the investigative report from the Ghana Police Service before taking legal action against the Electoral Commission following his disqualification from this year\u2019s presidential race.<\/p>\n
The Electoral Commission rejected the nomination of the IPP flagbearer over allegations that some persons who endorsed his candidature also subscribed to other nominees.<\/p>\n
The commission subsequently forwarded the case to the Police<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for further investigations.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Kofi Akpaloo had together with his indicted supporters gone to the Police station to defend themselves.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”bUfgvo3jXFEjetAHIKKos2tnwhxSrttS”]Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong> Mr. Akpaloo said he is hopeful the Police report would exonerate him.<\/p>\n \u201cThe EC didn\u2019t do its work well because I expected them to have invited the people first when they found out the anomaly and question them as to how they signed for me and another person or better still they could have called we the candidates to find out why same people signing for us with different signatures. So for the EC to disqualify us and threaten us with the Police, to me is nothing because I have to be on the ballot. And I will definitely be on the ballot because I\u2019m just waiting for the police to give me a report that I have been exonerated and then I will take it to the court for the EC to comply.\u201d<\/p>\n He further threatened place an interlocutory injunction the December 7 elections by Monday if the report delays.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026That is why we have written to the EC and the CID Director General that they should carry on with the investigation because we don\u2019t accept the decision by the Electoral Commission\u2026.and on Monday if we don\u2019t get the report we are going to put injunction on the election. Because if we don\u2019t get the report by Monday morning then it means that they are deliberately keeping us away from the election,\u201d the IPP flagbearer added.<\/p>\n He also rejected claims that he paid people to endorse his candidate.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy should I pay GHc50 for what? Who will collect GHc50 before signing for you? IPP is a serious political party, sometimes people think that because we are new we don\u2019t know what we are doing. We know what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n PPP, GCPP and NDP sues EC<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of the parties whose presidential nominees were disqualified \u2013 the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP<\/strong><\/a><\/span>), National Democratic Party (NDP<\/strong><\/a><\/span>) and Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP<\/strong><\/a><\/span>) had sued the EC praying the court to compel the EC to rope them back into the race.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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