Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer for Election 2016, has submitted presidential nomination forms to the Electoral Commission (EC), ahead of the December 7 polls, in Accra.
The EC, however, did not receive the 50, 000 Ghana cedis filing fee due to an interlocutory injunction filed by the Progressive People’s Party at the Accra High Court.
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) initiated legal processes at the court to restrain the EC from receiving nomination fees from presidential and parliamentary aspirants, seeking to contest this year’s general elections.
Per a Supreme Court decision, an application for interlocutory injunction technically applies an injunction, hence the EC could not go ahead to collect the filing fees from.
The amount, which was announced by the EC on September 8 at an Inter Party Advisory Committee, was described by some political parties as outrageous and illegal, triggering the lawsuit by the PPP, a week ago.
The decision by the NPP to also pay for all its 275 parliamentary candidates was also rejected by the EC to the court action.
