GJA Elections disqualification: Our candidate Lloyd Evans will be on the ballot paper - team
The Lloyd Evans Campaign Team has responded to his disqualification from the upcoming Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) National Executive Elections.
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In a statement issued and signed by Boahene Asamoah, the Campaign Manager, the team said: "We are more than convinced that a cabal of benefactors and surrogates of the incumbent President are bent on perpetuating themselves and their personal aggrandizement at the expense of the the collective good of all Journalists."
Mr Evans, a former President of the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ), had filed to contest the presidency of the GJA in the upcoming national elections on March 31, 2017 but in a statement on Friday morning, the GJA Elections Committee announced he has been disqualified from contesting.
According to the Committee, Mr Evans failed to meet the requirement under Article 47 (b) (iii)of the GJA Constitution, which states that “All members aspiring for Executive positions at the National and Regional levels must be members in good standing at least ninety (90) days before the elections.”
The committee said records available to it indicates that Mr Evans paid his membership dues covering 2015 on 5th Dec. 2016 and that for 2016 on 14th Feb, 2017. In view of these, Mr Evans is also caught by the 90-day rule and therefore disqualified
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Below is a copy of the statement
The attention of the Campaign Office of the aspiring President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Mr Lloyd Evans, has been drawn to a statement issued and signed by Mr Ben Assorow, on behalf of the GJA announcing the disqualification of our Candidate today.
We wish to assure the general public and the teeming Loyd’s supporters of journalists across the length and breadth of the country to remain calm in the face of this obvious tilted interpretation of the GJA Constitution.
We want to assure our supporters to continue the campaign to bring about the much needed change in the leadership of our once vibrant and envious association.
We are more than convinced that a cabal of benefactors and surrogates of the incumbent President are bent on perpetuating themselves and their personal aggrandizement at the expense of the the collective good of all Journalists.
“Team Lloyd” has been made aware almost a month ago about this ploy to deny Lloyd the Presidency by any means possible and we are working hard to reverse this bogus decision by any means possible.
We therefore, call on all journalists to disregard this obvious Machiavellian tactics at the 11th hour, because “no force or army is too strong to stop a peoples’ will for change.”
Our candidate Lloyd Evans, will be on the ballot paper come March 31.
“Keep Lloyd Evans Vision Alive” CHANGE WILL COME.
Signed
Boahene Asamoah
Campaign Manager
“Team Lloyd”
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