As announced by the Electoral Commission on Wednesday, March 27, the presidential run-off election was slated for today, Friday, March 29 to see the two candidates locking horns for the SRC presidential seat voted again to see who will steer the affairs of SRC for the 2019/2020 academic year.
The commission yesterday, March 28, announced the unfortunate postponement of the elections till further notice.
The postponement of the election is said to be as a result of an injunction issued by the Tamale Metro Division High Court to suspend the voting till the necessary proceedings are undertaken to look into the just ended SRC/NUGs general elections.
According to some section of the students especially, Abubakari Abdul-Halim; a level 200 student who contested for the SRC Secretary position and the person behind the petitioning of the E.C, the Wednesday election was not fairly conducted as it should have been the case.
Upon inquiry, our reporter; Isah Abubakar found out that the outspoken man who will not let “water pass through his fingers” believes there was no too ways on he winning the elections against his opponent who was vetted out and later brought back by the committee. Mr Elvis Ofori won by 50.19 percent of the total votes and was announced the winner.
Intelligence gathered by Campus 24/7 News Network, some students are believed to have voted more than once. Rumour from some section of the students even on the election day, had it that some of the E.C officials had generated more than one voting codes for voters who were in their ‘team’. Some came later only not to be able to get their codes gnerated for them due to those codes being used already.
The hearing has meanwhile, been scheduled by the court to take place on April 9, 2019 to look into the issues.
More of the stories that would be unveiled later, will be discussed by Campus 24/7 News Network on our News Digest programme on Radio Grin 94.7MHz tomorrow at 7:00pm prompt by our host Abdul-Rashid Salma and our able panelists.
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