Disqualified presidential candidate Bernard Mornah is accusing the Electoral Commission of unjustifiably barring him from contesting in the December 7 polls despite going above and beyond to satisfy all requirements in submitting his nomination.
According to the People’s National Convention (PNC) flagbearer, it is baffling that the EC, despite his meticulousness, disqualified him but approved the nomination of the flagbearer of the Ghana Freedom Party, Madam Akua Donkor.
"It's amazing that my mother Akua Donkor, seems to be more proficient than me," he told Citi FM’s Umaru Sanda Amadu during an interview on Tuesday, September 24, 2024.
"She went and picked 3 and she turned the 3 into F, and she is more qualified to be on a presidential ballot paper," he further commented on the qualification of the farmer over him by the EC.
Meanwhile, Bernard Mornah has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) for his disqualification from the presidential race in the upcoming December polls.
According to him, his disqualification is a breach of his rights, illegal, and failed to comply with due process requirements imposed by law.
In a court document available to GhanaWeb, Bernard Mornah demanded, “An order of mandamus compelling the 2nd respondent to declare the 1st applicant as duly nominated to contest the 2024 public presidential elections.”
On Friday, September 20, 2024, the EC, in a statement, indicated that 11 out of 24 aspirants who filed their nominations to contest the 2024 presidential elections were disqualified due to their failure to correct errors on their nomination forms.
But according to Bernard Mornah, he, unlike other candidates he knows of, did indeed satisfy all the requirements by the EC, thus making his disqualification a breach of justice.
“… that is why I am calling for a forensic audit of all the other people that the EC qualified; their forms,” he argued.
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