{"id":264352,"date":"2016-11-02T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=264352"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:36:58","slug":"court-strikes-out-ppp-suit-on-filing-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/court-strikes-out-ppp-suit-on-filing-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Court strikes out PPP suit on filing fees"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Accra High Court has dismissed a suit filed by the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), challenging the Electoral Commission’s filing fees for\u00a0nominees of\u00a0the 2016 polls, which it considered exhorbitant and arbitrary.<\/p>\n
The judge, who presided over the case, said she lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter, hence her decision to strike out the case.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”G6Ud4zC5c1TnEBh9NwkDYvsmSKY247QU”]The PPP had earlier argued that, it did not have the amount the EC was requesting as filing fees for the presidential and parliamentary aspirants for this year’s general elections.<\/p>\n
It is unclear whether the PPP would continue to pursue this particular case, especially when the party has a critical suit challenging the disqualification of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom from the race based on supposed errors on his nomination form.<\/p>\n
Background <\/strong><\/p>\n The party earlier filed an\u00a0interlocutory injunction\u00a0at the High Court on September 19, seeking to restrain the EC from going ahead with the receipt of filing fees from presidential and parliamentary candidates a day before the date scheduled for filing.<\/p>\n This injunction prevented the EC from receiving the filing fees of the various parliamentary and presidential hopefuls, though it bizarrely accepted\u00a0the filing fee of the PPP flagbearer, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, who was represented by the party\u2019s Chairman, Nii Allotey Brew-Hammond.<\/p>\n