Akua Donkor�s Party Threaten Legal Action Against Electoral Commission
We as the national executives of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) have always recognized, acknowledged and dignified your sacred constitutional mandate and role as a commission to independently supervise the electoral processes, procedures and guide lines and monitor as well as conducting elections in order to fine-tune the country’s fledgling democracy to assume an enviable position that we will all cherish for.
We must say we do appreciate the kind of cordial relationship that we have had with your prestigious organization since 2012 elections.
However, we must admit that we are highly disappointed in the Electoral Commission and by extension the newly appointed commissioner, Mrs Charlotte Osei for causing such an unpardonable blunder as she undertook her first assignment regarding Talensi by-election on 7th July 2015.
We wonder why the Commissioner and Commission allowed Mr. Yaro Bameezina Philip to contest on the ticket of our party in Talensi by –election without conferring with our National Chairman and General Secretary. Akua Donkor, our 2012 flagbearer was the only person the commission worked with and the move saddens us.
We think that it is a total contravention of our party’s constitution and activities as well as your outfit’s guideline and operations towards political parties’ activities for accepting nomination forms which has not been endorsed by a recognized political party’s chairman or secretary.
To back our point regarding the provisions of our party’s constitution we would want to cite Article 16(1) which stipulates that,’’ No Member shall be nominated or endorsed as party’s candidate in any parliamentary election unless the Member has been selected in accordance with the provisions of the constitution’’.
Article(4) says, ‘’A member applying for nomination as the party’s Parliamentary Candidate should be a known and active member for at least one(1) year provided that ,in appropriate cases, the National Executive Committee, in consultation with the Regional and constituency Executive, may dispense with the requirement’’.
As a matter of fact Yaro Bameezina in his recent outburst indicated that apart from Madam Akua Donko he did not know any executive of the party and this has been captured in several news items published by some online newspapers including ghanatoghana.com
With this we think that your outfit should have rejected Mr Yaro Bameezina Philip’s nomination forms since it was not endorsed by our party’s National chairman and secretary.
We believe that we should receive parity recognition as other political parties do receive from your end.
We want to emphatically state that there is a recognized national executive in place according to the provisions of our constitution.
So henceforth we want to entreat your outfit to disregard anybody’s attempt including the former flag bearer Madam Akua Donkor to field anybody or herself to contest for any future elections without the collective knowledge, consent and acceptance of the national executives of our party.
We want to inform you that if your outfit fails to oblige to respond accordingly to our demand we will be compelled to take legal action against the commission.
We further want to implore your office to inform us about any future IPAC meeting to enable us attend and participate to contribute our quota in the development of the country’s democracy.
Thanks for your cooperation
Yours Faithfully,
National Chairman General Secretary
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Mr Kwaku Abankwa Mr Agyenim Boateng
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National Ornaiser Press Secretary/National Communication Director
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