The Head of Legal Affairs of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Edudzie Tamekloe has expressed his displeasure on the Electoral Commission’s revocation of the NDC’s Joana Cudjoe’s candidature in the Amenfi Central constituency seat race.
In a letter dated October 10, 2024 addressed to Joana Cudjoe, the EC cited a pending interlocutory injunction suit against the candidate as reason for her disqualification.
Speaking to Citi News’ Bernard Avle, Edudzie described the decision as “mind-boggling.” According to him, the EC has been a party in the injunction case and has been following the proceedings in the Sekondi High Court.
“The basis of the disqualification is the purported interlocutory injunction from the High Court in Sekondi which is extremely mischievous because clearly, the EC at all material times, was a party to the suit in the Sekondi Court.
“Each time we appeared before the judge in Sekondi, there was a representative for the EC and so the proceedings were known to the EC. When we annulled that election and decided to rerun it, they came to supervise the election and so for Samuel Tettey to refer to the injunction [in the disqualification] is completely disingenuous.”
Moreover, the legal affairs head also accused the EC of being partial in its dealings.
“When the EC opened filing, the party presented Joana as its nominee and thereafter, there was an indication that there was going to be the printing of the notice of poll, which was delayed and so we made enquiries and wrote a letter to the plaintiff and we thought this matter had ended, but on October 10, Samuel Tettey wrote a letter disqualifying Joana.
“The EC cannot act like an octopus and move everywhere looking to disqualify a candidate whose election it supervised.”
Source: Dehotpress
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