{"id":236024,"date":"2024-10-21T04:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/21\/amenfi-central-ec-has-no-power-to-disqualify-joana-cudjoe\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T04:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:29:39","slug":"amenfi-central-ec-has-no-power-to-disqualify-joana-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/21\/amenfi-central-ec-has-no-power-to-disqualify-joana-cudjoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Amenfi Central: EC has no power to disqualify Joana Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has challenged the Electoral Commission\u2019s (EC) authority to disqualify Joana Gyan Cudjoe, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Amenfi Central, from contesting in the December elections.<\/p>\n<p>The EC disqualified Ms. Cudjoe on Wednesday, October 16, citing a pending injunction on the NDC\u2019s primary election, which had already been annulled. However, Dafeamekpor argues that the EC does not have the legal power to refuse her candidacy based on this reason.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Selorm Adonoo on Channel One TV\u2019s <em>Big Issue<\/em> on Saturday, October 19, the South Dayi MP asserted that only a court can declare a candidate ineligible, as stipulated by law.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the EC of overstepping its mandate and questioned the letter\u2019s legitimacy informing Ms. Cudjoe of her disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EC has acted beyond its powers,\u201d Dafeamekpor said, emphasizing that disqualifying a candidate based on a previously resolved injunction is not within the EC\u2019s jurisdiction. He called on the EC to provide a legal justification for their decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dafeamekpor, the EC\u2019s letter of disqualification was on the premise that \u201cthere is a certain pending injunction\u201d that stated that Joana Cudjoe should not hold herself as the parliamentary candidate of the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>However, that order was based on the basis of an election that had already been annulled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen out of the blue on the 10th of October, this letter erupted from the electoral commission, but I\u2019m looking at the legality of the letter. Because the pendency of an injunction cannot render a party ineligible to contest an election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou allow the matter to be determined by a court. If the court makes a final pronouncement, whatever the outcome, the EC always has the power to regularise the process. Either the court decides that you were not fit to contest and, therefore, if you had won the elections, you vacate your seat, or the EC has the power to organise a by-election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo to say that because there is a pending injunction, I will not allow you to contest in the public elections, with all due respect to EC, they don\u2019t have such powers. It is only the court of law that can render a person ineligible in the law\u201d, he added<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has challenged the Electoral Commission\u2019s (EC) authority to disqualify Joana Gyan Cudjoe, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Amenfi Central, from contesting in the December elections. The EC disqualified Ms. Cudjoe on Wednesday, October 16, citing a pending injunction on the NDC\u2019s primary election, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amenfi Central: EC has no power to disqualify Joana Cudjoe - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/21\/amenfi-central-ec-has-no-power-to-disqualify-joana-cudjoe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amenfi Central: EC has no power to disqualify Joana Cudjoe - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has challenged the Electoral Commission\u2019s (EC) authority to disqualify Joana Gyan Cudjoe, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Amenfi Central, from contesting in the December elections. 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