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UFP flagbearer sues EC

UFP flagbearer sues EC

The flag bearer of the United Front Party (UFP), Nana Agyenim Boateng, has filed a legal action challenging the Electoral Commission (EC) for disqualifying him as a presidential candidate in Election 2020.

Mr Boateng is seeking an order of certiorari from the Accra High Court to quash the EC’s decision dated October 19, this year, which disqualified him from contesting the highest office of the land in the December 7 polls.

In the judicial review application filed on Thursday Nana Boateng argued that his disqualification was “wrong and without any basis”.

Apart from the judicial review application, Nana Boateng has also filed an application for interlocutory injunction, asking the court to halt the election process by the EC until the final determination of his substantive case.

Counsel for the politician, Mr Samuel Cudjoe, is expected to move the application on November 2, this year.

Nana Boateng’s case

The politician’s case is predicated on two main grounds. First, he argued that claims by the EC that three people who endorsed his nomination forms denied doing so were “false.”

In his affidavit in support of his application, he said all the three people “alleged to have denied endorsing his nomination have sworn their respective statutory declarations confirming that they endorsed the nomination”.

His second ground is that the EC failed to give him a hearing in line with the rules of natural justice when it came to a conclusion that the three people had allegedly denied endorsing his nomination forms.

“The duty to give a hearing is a fundamental right and basic requirement of natural justice which is binding on all persons and all institutions,” he argued.

Disqualification

The disqualified aspirants are Nana Boateng, Mr Kwesi Busumbru of the People’s Action Party (PAP), Mr Akwasi Addai Odike of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Mr Kofi Gane and Mr Kofi Koranteng, both Independent aspirants.

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