President Mahama has petitioned the court to remove the Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Jean Mensa, and other members. The petition, filed on Monday, January 27, alleges that the EC officials violated the fundamental human rights of some citizens, contrary to the constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Specifically, the petition cites the 2020 parliamentary election in Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi, where the representatives of these areas were allegedly deprived of their rights by the EC. This is not an isolated incident, as these areas have reportedly been disenfranchised for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petition also criticizes the EC chairperson’s performance in the 2020 election, describing it as poor and potentially confusing. To succeed, the petition will need to meet the prima facie test, demonstrating strong and compelling evidence to support the claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Mahama Seeks Removal of EC Chairperson and Members<\/p>\n
President Mahama has petitioned the court to remove the Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Jean Mensa, and other members. The petition, filed on Monday, January 27, alleges that the EC officials violated the fundamental human rights of some citizens, contrary to the constitution.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the petition cites the 2020 parliamentary election in Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi, where the representatives of these areas were allegedly deprived of their rights by the EC. This is not an isolated incident, as these areas have reportedly been disenfranchised for several years.<\/p>\n
The petition also criticizes the EC chairperson’s performance in the 2020 election, describing it as poor and potentially confusing. To succeed, the petition will need to meet the prima facie test, demonstrating strong and compelling evidence to support the claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}