The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is demanding the Electoral Commission to explain its disqualification of the party’s Amenfi Central candidate, Joana Gyan Cudjoe, from the 2020 elections.
The party, having described the EC’s decision as “travesty of justice”, says it wants the Commission to explain to them how it arrived at what it describes as a “blatant miscarriage of justice.”
“The Electoral Commission must explain to Ghanaians how they can justify such a blatant miscarriage of justice. They must explain how they can disenfranchise thousands of voters based on a court order tied to an election that no longer exists. And they must be held accountable for the damage they are doing to the credibility of our electoral system,” General Secretary of the NDC, Franklin Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, said at a press conference Thursday, October 17, 2024.
He said the party will not accept the decision from the Commission and pledged its readiness to fight the courts and all available avenues until their candidate is restored to the race.
“The NDC will not accept this decision. We will fight it in the courts, we will fight it in the public arena, and we will fight it in every forum available to us. We will not allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. The rights of our candidate, the will of the people of Amenfi Central, and the future of our democracy demand nothing less,” Mr. Kwetey added.
Full Text: Disqualification of Joana Gyan Cudjoe undemocratic and provocative – Fifi Kwetey
