Accra, Aug. 27, GNA – The Ad-hoc Elections Dispute Committee set up by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to investigate the electoral dispute between Mr Yaw Owusu-Addo, a presidential contestant and Mr Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo, President-elect on Wednesday disqualified the later on grounds of eligibility
The Committee, therefore declared Mr Owusu-Addo the president-elect.
The Committee had Mr K. Arhin of the Electoral Commission and Mrs Bernadette Chinery-Hesse, a Legal Practitioner, Journalists and Administrative Manager of Ghana News Agency, as members with Mr Yonny Kulendi, also a Legal Practitioner, as Chairman.
The term of reference of the Committee was to investigate all issues at the centre of the electoral dispute between Mr Owusu-Addo, Director of Radio, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, who lost the contest for the Presidency to Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh, Editor of the Daily Graphic.
It was to determine the legibility or otherwise of Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh to stand for the elections, which is the centre of the controversy.
Mr Owusu-Addo lodged a complaint to the GJA Electoral Officer, Mr Mawusi Afele alleging that Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh was not a paid up member of the Association at the time he filed his nomination papers and should not have, therefore, held himself for election.
Source: GhanaWeb
