The Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) is appealing to Ghanaians to help it pay an amount of GHc2.8 million as filing fees for its flagbearer and its 275 parliamentary nominees for the December polls. “…The PPP has always asked Ghanaians to help and you will recall that when we even had our rally at Nima we asked party supporters to help the party.
And so if you are giving me this platform, Oliver Twist always asked for more so we are asking people to help us, we need help. There is nothing wrong with asking people to help you. They should help; why not,” Communications Director of the PPP, Paa Kow Ackon said on Eyewitness News. The PPP had dragged the Electoral Commission to court lamenting that the GHc50,000 and GHc10,000 filing fees for both presidential and parliamentary aspirants respectively was too high.
ut the court on Friday dismissed the injunction suit that sought to stop the commission from collecting the money pending the hearing of the substantive case next week. Per the ruling, the commission can now go ahead and collect the filing fees. Speaking on Eyewitness News, Paa Kow Ackon said the party is broke hence would struggle to pay the amount. “Everybody is broke, the whole country called Ghana is broke that is why we went to the IMF so if you ask me whether we are broke PPP, it’s not an isolation. We live in a country which is largely broke so if Ghana is broke, PPP is broke.”
Meanwhile, the EC has welcomed the court’s ruling. “It’s a very welcoming news. We had to put on hold the nomination process until such time that the court determined this case so that we can receive the nomination fees before we can accept the nominations of the various candidates. So with this ruling by the court, it is good news because we are going to resume the nomination process and hopefully early next week we will finish up and come up with the list of candidates who will officially stand for this year’s election,” he said.
Source: citifmonline.com
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Your one room banks will soon collapse
u guys are missing the point, tomorrow the EC will charge 500 000 per candidate, money shouldnt b a barrier.EQUITY!!!!
Please Dr Paa Kwasi Nduom, stop the hypocrisy! You have bought a Bank in the United State and you are claiming you cannot pay the filling fees for yourself and your Parliamentary candidates? Please if you think it would not be worth paying because you cannot win the election or any parliamentary seats then please with all due respect form an alliance with other opposition parties and that will reduce your cost. Your chances too will be brighter because there is strength in unity. Please do not waste money but join the NPP and lobby for a ministerial position so that you can get the opportunity to help Ghana with your knowledge just as you did when the NPP came to power in 2001. This is my humble advice, honorable.
Dr Paa Kwasi Nduom is smart. He uses politics to enrich himself. He portrays himself to be a rich and boast of having so many companies and yet not enough but still begging. People open ur eyes
Fuulls.
The fragmentation of the Nkrumaist is the biggest challenge of all the smaller parties. If they believe that they all belong to a common grandfather called Kwame Nkrumah, what stops them from pulling resources together and field one candidate per a constituency. I think that the real target of them is third position, when the results are announced.Non of them can win the general election.If they are interested in embarking on unproductive venture, they should be prepared to pay filing fees themselves
Wow. Edwumawura is begging for money from Ghanaians. As3m oooo
wickedness and greedy. upon all your wealth you can't pay GHS2.8million