The Vice presidential candidate of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Mrs Patricia Asante may face criminal prosecution if she’s found to have voted in the previous elections.
The Electoral Commission made the disclosure after it emerged that the running mate gave her year of birth on the party’s Presidential nomination forms as 1998 making her below the age of registration to vote as stipulated by the constitution.
The presidential candidate of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor last week introduced her running mate to the public after she settled on Mrs. Patricia Asante, who was said to be a 32-year-old farmer.
She said Mrs. Asante was picked because she has what it takes to do a good job.
But addressing the media after the close of nominations for the 2016 election on Monday, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei stated that the Vice Presidential candidate is not qualified for that high office on the basis of age.
“The date of birth given is October 15, 1998 making her below the age for registration and we may possibly have to call on the police to investigate a case of minor registration if the candidate is a valid voter. “
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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oooh ghana why? this cannot lead us to our destiny.forget'n ur age date means u don't know where u even come from! how can u hold ghana like an egg and rule this country......pls tell her to watch road to destiny...
IN FACT, I CANT THINK FAR WITH EC. WHY THIS WANTON DISQUALIFICATION NOW? I SEE NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULD ALLOW AKUA DONKOR TO VOTE DURING THE AGITATIONS FOR A NEW VOTERS REGISTER TO OVERTURN OR TO BACK YOUR DECISION AT THAT TIME. DURING THE AGITATION PERIOD ,YOU ALLOWED ALL THESE POLITICAL PARTIES TO TAKE PART IN THE DECISION PROCESS. WHY DIDN'T YOU DISQUALIFY THEM AT THAT TIME BUT RATHER RECOGNIZED THEM AS ELIGIBLE POLITICAL PARTIES TO MAKE SUBMISSION AT THE FORUM?
So Ghana can't engage in discussions that will move this country forward. Vision-less country with Mahama leading
Why do you want to prosecute the running mate of Akua Donkor. We have made the presidential seat so cheap by encouraging the likes of this woman who doesn't know anything to make noise always. Leave her alone because it is not their making. We as a nation doesn't know the implication awaiting us should in case she become a leader. We have adopted ENGLISH as our national language and nothing else. I am not sidelining those who can't speak or write the queen's language but there is a clear line that all our communications to the outside world is english but we have turn into a blind eye and encouraging these ***barred word*** all these years.
The truth is that we do not want to be sincere with ourselves. We turn to elogise excuse me to say ***barred word***. Some of these candidates were not worth going for the forms but we turn to support their move because they speaking for our favorite parties whether things were going wrong or not. We in our hearts know it was wrong but we blind our eyes and edge them to continue. It is not surprising to see such kind of situation arising. If we us individuals keep tickling ourselves that there will be Peace when we affirmatively know that peace without justice can not make a nation stable. The Word of God says in 1st Thessalonian 5:3 that While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. The peace council and leaders who trumpet Peace but refuse to talk about injustice in the system the Word of God says they and their families would not escape. Remember our families are in Ghana and when the hit our homes we here will feel the pain too. Pray and talk about Peace and justice. God bless.
EC must apply the same zeal & deal with the NDC thugs who vandalised their suhum office last mnth. We demand electoral transparency and strong institutions
It's only in Ghana that someone like Akua Donkor will be entertained in the first place to form a political party. Someone who cannot even write her name or spell one word. Why are we joking with the national interest and future like this? John Mahama is using this empty barrel to make noise so as to distract the needed attention of the good people of Ghana. God come and restore your authority in the country once and for all.
and now the winch akua donkor is putting somebody's wife in trouble.....hahahahaha. so there is no educated person around this woman? not even the ple she is working for couldnt help her to fill her forms? comediennes. well i am for change and the change begins by throwing these kind of ple from our political process.
She should have hired a lawyer to go through all the documents before filing with the EC. If the woman is 32, then she was born in 1984, not 1998, dummy!
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