{"id":262410,"date":"2016-10-27T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=262410"},"modified":"2016-10-27T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:39:15","slug":"ndp-re-files-suit-against-ec-over-nana-konadus-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/ndp-re-files-suit-against-ec-over-nana-konadus-disqualification\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP refiles suit against EC over Nana Konadu\u2019s disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Democratic Party (NDP) Flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has refiled her lawsuit against the Electoral Commission (EC) at a Human Rights Division of the High Court\u00a0challenging her disqualification as presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
The re-filed lawsuit will be heard on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.\u00a0The refiling was necessitated\u00a0after an Accra High Court on Thursday\u00a0struck out<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the initial lawsuit challenging the disqualification.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”DDbIdfcTevCvv4u4hkwQTLRSrvYDbQDM”]According to the ruling delivered by Justice George K. Koomson, the decision to strike our the case was due to the wrong procedure used by Nana Konadu in the initial filing 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