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• Fernando 7 years ago

  Where will the Wild jubilation take us ,NDUOM?

  Where will the Wild jubilation take us ,NDUOM?

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• Paa Nii 7 years ago

  This Ashawo woman has some nerve oo. This is all going to end very badly for her when the Supreme Court rules against the EC’s appeal.

  This Ashawo woman has some nerve oo. This is all going to end very badly for her when the Supreme Court rules against the EC’s appeal.

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• Bbb 7 years ago

  This evil woman must resign.

  This evil woman must resign.

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• papa J. 7 years ago

  Why is this fat lip woman bent on setting Ghana on fire,We are slowly getting close to a situation when Ghana will be like all the other west African states that had civil wars. AYOOOOO

  Why is this fat lip woman bent on setting Ghana on fire,We are slowly getting close to a situation when Ghana will be like all the other west African states that had civil wars. AYOOOOO

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• ROSEMARY 7 years ago

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  Charlotte Osei EC Boss
  It is exactly one month to the crucial Presidential and Parliamentary elections, but everything is in a limbo. Instead of the count-down, we are now counting the number of court suits against the Electoral Commission.
  
  When an Accra High Court, presided over by Mr. Justice Kyei Baffour, ruled on Friday in favour of a petition before it, and ordered the Electoral Commission to allow Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, founder and flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party, to correct the details in his nomination forms and re-submit same for consideration, as part of an elaborate process to put his name on the national presidential ballot paper, it opened the floodgates for more suits against the commission.
  
  Today, lawyers for Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings are expected to move to an Accra High Court, in a case in which the former First Lady is seeking the re-instatement of her name on the 2016 presidential ballot box. Tomorrow, another court in Accra is expected to give a directive on a similar case involving Dr. Edward Nasiri Mahama, the disqualified flagbearer of the People’s National Convention.
  
  There is every indication that the commission would be very busy in court in the preceding days. With the presidential and presidential elections at the home stretch, the Electoral Commission should be more concerned about the election processes, and not petitions.
  
  For me, as a social commentator, the problem should be laid squarely at the doorsteps of President John Dramani Mahama, who thrust the heavy burden of supervision over this nation’s elections on the tiny shoulders of largely, untried and less than clear nationality identity of Mrs. Charlotte Osei.
  
  There two major reasons why I have always believed Mrs. Osei has no business leading the Electoral Commission. If you Google Charlotte Osei to Wikipedia, you would be told that Charlotte’s mother was a Nigerian. The old lady visited her ancestors about six months ago.
  
  Charlotte herself was born in Nigeria. We have a Constitution, which states clearly in Article 44 (1) thus: “A person is not qualified to be appointed a member of the Electoral Commissioner unless he (or she) is qualified to be elected as a Member of Parliament.
  
  Article 94 (1) on qualification and eligibility of a Member of Parliament states: “Subject to the provisions of this article, a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament, unless he (or she) is a citizen of Ghana, has attained the age of 21 years, and a registered voter.
  
  Among many others, “a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament if he (or she) owes allegiance to a country other than Ghana.”
  
  Constitutional experts argue that Mrs. Osei could have acquired Ghanaian citizenship through the father, listed as Kesson-Smith, or through marriage to the person known as Mr. Osei, definitely a Ghanaian name. Be it as it may, Kesson-Smith is one name that could resonate in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.
  
  What is never in dispute is that while a student at the University of Ghana, Charlotte refused to be identified with Ghana. She was known and called ‘Ama Alata.’ I do not believe any true Ghanaian would want to be identified as ‘Alata.’
  
  Mrs. Charlotte Osei obtained her Masters in Law at the Queens University in Canada. A number of her mates were Ghanaians. Charlotte decided, out of her own volition, to join the Nigerian International Students Association at the university. By then, her room-mate was Lady Julia, now wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene. I am told that there was a vibrant Ghana International Students Association, but our current Chairperson of the Electoral Commission turned her back on the Ghanaian association.
  
  For her, she was a Nigeri

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• ROSEMARY 7 years ago

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  Charlotte Osei EC Boss
  It is exactly one month to the crucial Presidential and Parliamentary elections, but everything is in a limbo. Instead of the count-down, we are now counting the number of court suits against the Electoral Commission.
  
  When an Accra High Court, presided over by Mr. Justice Kyei Baffour, ruled on Friday in favour of a petition before it, and ordered the Electoral Commission to allow Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, founder and flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party, to correct the details in his nomination forms and re-submit same for consideration, as part of an elaborate process to put his name on the national presidential ballot paper, it opened the floodgates for more suits against the commission.
  
  Today, lawyers for Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings are expected to move to an Accra High Court, in a case in which the former First Lady is seeking the re-instatement of her name on the 2016 presidential ballot box. Tomorrow, another court in Accra is expected to give a directive on a similar case involving Dr. Edward Nasiri Mahama, the disqualified flagbearer of the People’s National Convention.
  
  There is every indication that the commission would be very busy in court in the preceding days. With the presidential and presidential elections at the home stretch, the Electoral Commission should be more concerned about the election processes, and not petitions.
  
  For me, as a social commentator, the problem should be laid squarely at the doorsteps of President John Dramani Mahama, who thrust the heavy burden of supervision over this nation’s elections on the tiny shoulders of largely, untried and less than clear nationality identity of Mrs. Charlotte Osei.
  
  There two major reasons why I have always believed Mrs. Osei has no business leading the Electoral Commission. If you Google Charlotte Osei to Wikipedia, you would be told that Charlotte’s mother was a Nigerian. The old lady visited her ancestors about six months ago.
  
  Charlotte herself was born in Nigeria. We have a Constitution, which states clearly in Article 44 (1) thus: “A person is not qualified to be appointed a member of the Electoral Commissioner unless he (or she) is qualified to be elected as a Member of Parliament.
  
  Article 94 (1) on qualification and eligibility of a Member of Parliament states: “Subject to the provisions of this article, a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament, unless he (or she) is a citizen of Ghana, has attained the age of 21 years, and a registered voter.
  
  Among many others, “a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament if he (or she) owes allegiance to a country other than Ghana.”
  
  Constitutional experts argue that Mrs. Osei could have acquired Ghanaian citizenship through the father, listed as Kesson-Smith, or through marriage to the person known as Mr. Osei, definitely a Ghanaian name. Be it as it may, Kesson-Smith is one name that could resonate in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.
  
  What is never in dispute is that while a student at the University of Ghana, Charlotte refused to be identified with Ghana. She was known and called ‘Ama Alata.’ I do not believe any true Ghanaian would want to be identified as ‘Alata.’
  
  Mrs. Charlotte Osei obtained her Masters in Law at the Queens University in Canada. A number of her mates were Ghanaians. Charlotte decided, out of her own volition, to join the Nigerian International Students Association at the university. By then, her room-mate was Lady Julia, now wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene. I am told that there was a vibrant Ghana International Students Association, but our current Chairperson of the Electoral Commission turned her back on the Ghanaian association.
  
  For her, she was a Nigeri

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• TOGBEVI AMENYA II 7 years ago

  This Charlotte Osei is evil .She is up to something and God will punish her and her children for that . She knows that Ndoum and Konadu in the race will mean the end of NDC. Taking this case to Atubuga who is another NDC judg ...
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  This Charlotte Osei is evil .She is up to something and God will punish her and her children for that . She knows that Ndoum and Konadu in the race will mean the end of NDC. Taking this case to Atubuga who is another NDC judge means EC can now go ahead and sack them. God does not sleep . We shall see her end very soon .

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• Kofi Kofi 7 years ago

  This lady's intransigence is very befuddling. Instead of supporting and promoting democracy as an inclusive process, she is hell bent on excluding participation based on technicalities. The banned candidates and their support ...
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  This lady's intransigence is very befuddling. Instead of supporting and promoting democracy as an inclusive process, she is hell bent on excluding participation based on technicalities. The banned candidates and their supporters should be encouraged to participate in the electoral process by allowing them to rectify whatever errors that may have made in their application instead of using that as a basis to exclude them. That is putting form over substance which is really asinine.
  Could all this be part of her grand scheme to throw the elections in favor of Ford Incompetent and take off from the country to join her husband and two children who she has already relocated to Virginia. Why would she move her family if she meant well? And how did she afford the house she purchased for them in Virginia and how
  is she supporting them financially in Virginia as her husband is not authorized to work in the States and has not been working? It could not be from her civil service salary. So who is paying for all that? The answer is so obvious even Stephen Wonder can see through it.

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• Yussif 7 years ago

  When you were seriously changing logos instead of focusing on your core mandate,a lot of people took you on,why you shouldn't concentrate on the elections since that was crucial and your first time but you came out strongly a ...
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  When you were seriously changing logos instead of focusing on your core mandate,a lot of people took you on,why you shouldn't concentrate on the elections since that was crucial and your first time but you came out strongly argueing how important that voodoo logo meant to you.Weather candidates take filling of form seriously or not,they don't carry out this by themselfs,is the EC boss saying she can divide herself to occupy all positions at the EC ?,this should've been anticipated as administrative errors and allow the candidates to correct them as the law says.Were they given the opportunity to correct the mistakes?by the way whos to identify the mistakes anyway?can the partie be players and officiaters at the same time?this EC boss lacks basic understanding of the law on natural justice to give the person opportunity to be heard period.If she loses this case then she must resign because she can not be coursing financial lost to this country with impunity.

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• Joseph 7 years ago

  Where is this country heading to? I understand I can now fraudulently impersonate somebody and sign a cheque with his forged signature and when I'm caught I'll only be asked to go back and correct the mistake and bring the ...
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  Where is this country heading to? I understand I can now fraudulently impersonate somebody and sign a cheque with his forged signature and when I'm caught I'll only be asked to go back and correct the mistake and bring the cheque back for another attempt to cash it. This is the law that our judges are forcing down our throat.

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• Ernest 7 years ago

  I don't think there is a forgery of signature if the signage confirms that he actually did sign under his own name, even if it is different signatures but wasn't sign by someone else. If the person who signs it agrees that ...
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  I don't think there is a forgery of signature if the signage confirms that he actually did sign under his own name, even if it is different signatures but wasn't sign by someone else. If the person who signs it agrees that he signed it under his own name and that no one else signed under his name, even though he made a mistake with two different signatures, it is not a crime, rather it is administrative mistake which calls for correction if there is an opportunity to correct it.

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• GODFRED OWUSUMENSAH 7 years ago

  The EC boss totally wants to quash the PPP presidential aspirant .Hmmm!!! time will tell.

  The EC boss totally wants to quash the PPP presidential aspirant .Hmmm!!! time will tell.

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• KingSouth 7 years ago

  "The Commission is of the firm conviction backed by the law, that candidates seeking the highest office of the land, must take full responsibility for ensuring that their nomination forms meet the standard in form and substan ...
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  "The Commission is of the firm conviction backed by the law, that candidates seeking the highest office of the land, must take full responsibility for ensuring that their nomination forms meet the standard in form and substance, required by the law.
  
  Is it the LAW or the EC's conviction.
  
  The last but one paragraph, ...as in other jurisdictions... smells Nigerian the other time it was a foreign logo. The EC doesn't care about the time left the poll. what a perfectionist, can she pronounce her own name without error.

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