An Assembly Member of Aspirant for Nungua North Estates, Godfred Hammond has said \u00a0the Electoral Commission’s(EC) ruling \u00a0will not augur well for aspirants considering the amount of money they have spent on their campaigns.<\/p>\n
The District Assembly elections which was scheduled to begin on March 3, 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has been suspended following the Supreme Court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”xhoZIaNvLIHR6p4a6WkLrtuiBiNUAflP”]Speaking on Eyewitness News,<\/strong>Hammond said:\u00a0\u201cWe spent lots of money printing posters and campaigning and this is going to start all over again?It is a shame…\u201d<\/p>\n He pointed out \u00a0that aspirants will have to go through the cumbersome process of starting their campaigns all over again.<\/p>\n Hammond believes the EC would not have lost the case if their lawyers had been more diligent.<\/p>\n \u201cI received the ruling with mixed feeling, however, I am thinking the lawyers at EC are sleeping because this could have been avoided…\u201d<\/p>\n How it all began<\/strong><\/p>\n The EC was\u00a0dragged to court\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong>by an aspiring Assembly man, Benjamin Eyi Mensah, represented by lawyer\u00a0Alex Afenyo Markin.<\/p>\n A fisherman,\u00a0Eyi Mensah, who filed the writ said<\/span>\u00a0he was denied an opportunity\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to file his nomination despite meeting all conditions to contest adding that the EC closed nominations before the maturation of the Constitutional Instrument (CI) 85.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court subsequently\u00a0ordered the EC\u00a0to stop running \u00a0adverts<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>of the elections ahead of\u00a0the ruling on Friday.<\/p>\n The court contended that it was not right for the Commission to continue advertising the election when there \u00a0was\u00a0a case challenging the legality of the processes.<\/p>\n On Friday, the court finally gave its ruling and called off the District Assembly elections off.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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