The flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Anbataayela Mornah says the Electoral Commission (EC) had no valid reason to disqualify him from the upcoming December presidential election.
He maintains that, he fulfilled all the constitutional requirements for eligibility.
Mr Mornah was one of 11 presidential aspirants disqualified from contesting the December 7, elections.
In response, he has filed a lawsuit against the EC, asking the EC to restore him.
According to Mornah, the 1992 Constitution requires a presidential candidate to be at least 40 years old, of sound mind, and a registered voter—qualifications he met.
He also noted that he addressed all issues raised by the EC before his disqualification.
Speaking on JoyNews’ AM show, Mr Mornah said, “I corrected any and every error the Electoral Commission stated, and you can refer to pages 9, 10, 37, 39, 42, 46, and 50. These were the pages the Commission identified as having incomplete particulars of my supporters.
“The incomplete particulars of my supporters included that, on one set of forms, we inadvertently omitted the date, on another, we omitted a telephone number, and on yet another, there was a transposition error where we meant to write 57 but wrote 75. We corrected those incomplete details and returned the forms to the Electoral Commission at the time they scheduled for me.”
He stated that the errors identified by the Electoral Commission were corrected.
Mr Mornah further noted that, unless the EC concealed some errors, they deliberately used undisclosed issues to disqualify his party without informing them beforehand.
“If that were the case, or if the Electoral Commission did not identify certain errors before they alerted us to correct our errors. How is their inadequacy supposed to be my liability?”
Source: Isaac Kafui Nyanyovor
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