Dr Serebour Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services for the Electoral Commission (EC) has said, the law does not make it mandatory for the Electoral Commission to Supervise the Parliamentary and Presidential primaries.
According to him, Is not good to go ahead to supervise election when people are contesting the register, because the foundation of any good election is the register. “So, before the court injection they have written to us and we have invited to meet. But before we could meet the injunction came”. He said
Asking whether is Mandatory for the EC to supervise the primaries?
The EC Director says, “This one, the law is not mandatory for us to supervise the primaries but the executive ones are mandatory.
Meanwhile, Abraham Amaliba leader of the NDC legal team said, they are very aware that is not mandatory for the EC to supervise the upcoming primaries. According to Mr. Amaliba, they only decides to engage the Electoral Commission for transparency sake.
It is not clear what the party decision we be. The injunction will be heard on Friday.
Dr. Duffour filed an injunction application at the Accra High Court seeking to stop the elections over concerns about the electoral album.
Among the reliefs he is seeking are declaration that the photo album register issued by the party is incomplete and inaccurate and that the party be ordered to prepare and deliver a complete and accurate photo album register to all the presidential aspirants at least five weeks ahead of the elections to enable the aspirants carry out the needed verification of the photo album register.
However, Mr. Kojo Bonsu who also expressed dissatisfaction shared the same sentiments as Dr. Duffuor.
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