NEC Appeals To Political Parties, Candidates For Lawyers By Robert Dixon MONROVIA December 1 (LINA) - The Chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Jerome Korkoya, has appealed to political parties and independent candidates to assist the commission with lawyers to answer the petition for an injunction against the December 16, 2014 senatorial election filed before the Supreme Court. He said that the Supreme Court will hold a hearing Tuesday, December 2, to determine if the case should be heard by the Court or be dismissed. According to the Liberia News Agency, Korkoyah made the appeal at the NEC headquarters over the weekend during an emergency meeting with political parties and independent candidates to inform them of the Supreme Court’s stay order on campaign activities due to a petition for an injunction filed against the December 16, 2014 election by certain groups. The stay order was issued by the Justice in Chamber of the Supreme Court, Justice Philip A.Z. Banks, on Friday, November 28, instructing the NEC to cease all electioneering activities until further notice. Meanwhile, Mr. Alaric Tokpa, National Chairman of the National Democratic Coalition and one of the plaintiffs, said NEC was wrong to announce the holding of the election when the country has not been declared Ebola-free. Tokpa claimed election under such condition would make it almost impossible for the poll to be free, fair and credible
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:25:29 +0000
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