{"id":262299,"date":"2016-10-27T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=262299"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T10:02:09","slug":"court-strikes-out-nana-konadus-disqualification-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/court-strikes-out-nana-konadus-disqualification-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court strikes out Nana Konadu\u2019s disqualification case"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Accra High Court has struck out the suit brought before it by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings who was challenging her disqualification by the Electoral Commission as a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
According to the ruling delivered by Justice George K. Koomson, the decision was due to a wrong procedure used by Nana Konadu hence making the case “incompetent.”<\/p>\n
In his ruling the judge indicated that the applicants were wrong to include an application for judicial review and the enforcement of fundamental human rights in one writ.<\/p>\n
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NDP to re-file case<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the lawyers for the NDP have indicated that they will re-file the suit by midday today [Thursday].<\/p>\n Konadu fights EC in court<\/strong><\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”DaPU2SKPivVt9g2fX8NgMeL0kS4OQel4″]Nana Konadu together with her party and her running mate sued the Electoral Commission last week\u00a0and added the Attorney General to the case over her disqualification from the presidential race.<\/p>\n They were seeking an \u201cinterlocutory injunction, prohibiting and restraining\u201d the Electoral Commission and its agents from going ahead with the balloting of presidential candidate until the court settles the matter.<\/p>\n She also prayed the court to stop the EC from doing the following:<\/p>\n The NDP flagbearer in another suit, \u00a0prayed the court to declare as illegal the deadline the EC set for receiving nominations and “a further declaration that the EC erred in law when it decided not to accept the applicants nomination thereby wrongfully and illegal disqualifying the applicants from contesting in the 2016 presidential elections.”<\/p>\n They are also seeking\u00a0an order quashing the EC’s decision not to accept Konadu’s nominations and an order compelling the EC to accept her nomination and to include her name on the ballot for the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n Nana Konadu was disqualified with 12 other presidential nominees because they failed to meet some requirements of the electoral laws ahead of the December polls.<\/p>\n PPP to go to Supreme Court if…<\/strong><\/p>\n The Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) which is also fighting the disqualification of its flagbearer, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom in court, has earlier stated that it will go to the Supreme Court<\/strong><\/a><\/span> if the High Court hearing its case fails to rule in its favour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In response to a question on what the party would do if the judgment does not go its way, Lawyer for the PPP, Ayikoi Otoo simply told Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Fred Djabanor that \u201cwe will go to the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Accra High Court has struck out the suit brought before it by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings who was challenging her disqualification by the Electoral Commission as a presidential candidate. According to the ruling delivered by Justice George K. Koomson, the decision was due to a wrong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":262305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13085,276,12512,2169,3],"yoast_head":"\n\n