The founder and leader of the Independent People’s Party (IPP), Kofi Akpaloo received the shock of his life when the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana rejected his filing fees for his parliamentary candidates. Akpaloo on Monday morning walked into the office of the Commission with a ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag full of money to pay … Read more
The Electoral Commission of Ghana will today announce presidential nominees who have fulfilled all legal requirements and qualified to contest in this year’s 2016 elections. A total of 17 persons filed to contest in the elections on December 76. Fifteen of them are representing political parties while two are seeking to contest as independent. The … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party says they are not yet done with the EC in spite of the dismissal of their filling fee suit against the election management body by the High court. The Nkrumahist party sued the EC over what they said was the astronomical hike in the filing fee for candidates contesting in the … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has said it does not have enough money to pay the filing fees of its presidential and various parliamentary candidates across the country. On Friday morning, the PPP’s lawyer, told an Accra High Court the party did not have the required amount of money needed to pay for all of … Read more
A suit by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) challenging what it described as “astronomical filing fees” by the Electoral Commission has been dismissed by an High Court Friday. Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare reports that the reasons for the dismissal of the suit will be given by the Court on Monday, October, 10 at 2pm. The … Read more
An Accra high court will today hear the suit filed by the Progressive People’s Party over the EC’s astronomical filing fees. The PPP in a writ filed at the high court prayed the court to stop the EC from increasing the filing fees astronomically. It describes the 500 percent hike in the presidential filing fee … Read more
The National Youth Coordinator of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Divine Nkrumah has taken a swipe at the Electoral Commissioner (EC), Mrs. Charlotte Osei. He has described the first female commissioner as an indecisive and inconsistent person whose actions and inaction may create problems for the upcoming general polls. According to him, the Commissioner per … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC), has expressed worry over the suit filed by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), challenging the filing fees it fixed for nominees, saying it may delay the vetting of nominees for the December polls. “If you are talking about the end of the process in terms of determining those who are qualified … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it proceeded with the submission its GHC 50,000 filing fee for the party’s Presidential candidate because it never heard in the news that the Electoral Commission (EC) had declined to accept the filing fee of other Flag bearers, due to an interlocutory injunction filed on the process. The … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) will be heading back to court Monday to cite the Electoral Commission (EC) for contempt after the elections management body accepted its filing fee last week. The PPP has filed a suit at the High Court seeking an injunction to prevent the EC from receiving the reviewed filing fees for … Read more
It appears the Electoral Commission’s hurdles will not go away anytime soon with barely two months to the elections. The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), which is already in court against the Commission’s filing fees for presidential and parliamentary nominees, has indicated it will sue the Commission again for contempt, over its decision to accept their … Read more
The Director of Operations for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has stated that the party had no intention of tricking the Electoral Commission, when it presented its filing fee to the election management body, despite its own lawsuit against the fee. He said this on Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big … Read more
A legal practitioner, Abraham Amaliba, has explained the Electoral Commission (EC) has trapped the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) by accepting the GHc50,000 presidential filing fees despite a pending injunction application on the said fees. With the exception of the PPP, the Commission led by the chairperson rejected the GHC50,000 filing fees of all the presidential … Read more
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has explained the reason why the commission received the filing fees of the Progressive People’s Party. With the exception of the PPP, the Commission led by the chairperson rejected the GHC50,000 filing fees of all the presidential candidates who submitted theirs during the two-day exercise. The … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana is not a tax collector to be charging astronomical filing fees for presidential and parliamentary elections, Mr George Boateng, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and vice-presidential aspirant in the 2016 polls, has said. The filing fee for presidential aspirants is GHS 50,000 whereas that for parliamentary … Read more
The decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to accept the banker’s draft of GHS50, 000, being the filing fee for the presidential aspirant of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), was wrong, flag bearer of the Independent People’s Party (IPP), Kofi Akpaloo has said. The EC rejected the filing fees of the New Patriotic Party’s Nana … Read more
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has expressed its disappointment in the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) for paying the Electoral Commission’s filing fees. The PPP filed a suit at the High Court in on September 19 seeking an interlocutory injunction to prevent the Commission from receiving the nominations in protest of the EC’s much criticized … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it will file a contempt case against the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana on Monday for accepting the filing fee of the party. The PPP has filed a suit against the EC in connection with the GHS50,000 filing fee for presidential nominees, leading to an injunction placed on … Read more
The Electoral Commission has gone back on its words as it accepts the GHC50,000 filing fees of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) on Friday. The electoral body had a day before rejected that of about seven presidential candidates. The EC chairperson, Charlotte Osei told the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, who was first to submit his … Read more
The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has said he has strong believe that not all the 23 Presidential aspirants will be able to pay for their nominations fees for the upcoming December 7 election. The Electoral Commission (EC), has confirmed that 23 presidential nomination forms have so far been picked up … Read more