The Electoral Commission has gone back on its words as it accepts the GHC50,000 filing fees of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) on Friday.
The electoral body had a day before rejected that of about seven presidential candidates. The EC chairperson, Charlotte Osei told the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, who was first to submit his forms Thursday, that due to a pending court injunction, the commission is unable to accept the filing fees.
But to the surprise of many, when the Progressive People’s Party that first took the issue of filing fees to court brought its GHC50,000 banker’s draft as the filing fees, the EC wholeheartedly received it.
Interestingly, the Chairman of the PPP Nii Allotey Bre Hammond, who submitted the presidential candidate’s forms in addition to the filing fees, was shocked by the readiness of the EC to receive the party’s filing fees.
He later told journalists that though they paid the fees, they did not expect the EC to accept it just as was done to others.
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