Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu made an unexpected visit to the office of the Electoral Commission (EC) in Accra this morning. His mission was to seek clarification regarding the commission’s requirement for submission of candidate nomination forms. The EC in a statement released yesterday, encouraged candidates or persons filing … Read more
The GHC50, 000 filing fee for presidential aspirants which is being contested in court by some political parties is a pittance, according to a chief. The chief of Akuapem Larteh, Nana Asiedu Okoo Ababio III, also wants the Electoral Commission to review upward the GHC10,000 filing fee for parliament candidates in the December 7 elections. … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has taken legal action against the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) and the Attorney General for the “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” filing fees the Commission is charging aspirants ahead of the 2016 polls. According to the PPP, the Commission had no legal mandate to review the filing fees of presidential … Read more
Financial Analyst, Sydney Casley Hayford, has watered down suggestions that filing fees being charged by the Electoral Commission is expensive. The Commission has been criticized by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the People’s National Convention (PNC), for pegging filing fees for the December 7 polls at GHc50,000 and GHc10,000 for … Read more
Chairman of the Convention Peoples Party (PNC) has fired a salvo at the Electoral Commission (EC) for “auctioning Ghana’s democracy”. According to Bernard Mornah, in some constituencies, the GH?10,000 and GHS 50,000 filing fees they are charging presidential and parliamentary candidates respectively is sufficient to run a campaign. He wondered why 90 percent funds needed … Read more