The flag bearer of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) for disqualifying him from the 2024 presidential election.
Mornah was among 11 disqualified presidential aspirants.
The EC explained that the presidential aspirants were disqualified from participating in the December 7, 2024, elections due to their failure to correct errors on their nomination forms.
EC Chairperson, Jean Mensa, explained, “Mr Bernard Mornah also had incomplete details of supporters. He also used registered voters in a particular district to support the nomination in other districts. His form also contained varying signatures for the same supporters and in some cases the same signature for different supporters. The committee was of the view that he be disqualified.”
However, Mornah contends that his disqualification was unlawful.
In an application filed at the Accra High Court on Tuesday September, 2024 Mr Mornah is seeking, among other reliefs, an order restraining the EC from embarking on any activity relating to the Presidential election until he is declared as “duly nominated candidate and allowed to contest the elections”
Again, he is seeking an order of certiorari quashing the EC’s decision to disqualify him from contesting as a Presidential Candidate in the 2024 presidential election, and an order of mandamus compelling the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, to declare him as duly nominated to contest the elections.
He is further seeking a declaration from the court that the EC, as an administrative body, acted arbitrarily, unfairly and capriciously in disqualifying, and therefore it breached Article 23 of the 1992 Constitution, and also breached his fundamental human rights as protected by the Constitution.