UG Decides in SRC elections today September 18 despite interlocutory injunction

A circuit court has granted an interlocutory injunction against the conduct of this year’s University of Ghana Student Representative Council election.

The complainant, Joseph Asioh Mawuli a level 200 student, dragged the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, the Dean of Student Affairs, the SRC Electoral Commissioner and the University over the re-instatement of Hip life icon Maradona Adjei Yeboah, widely known as Guru NKZ into the University of Ghana’s SRC presidential race.

The disqualified aspirant and the Lapaz-Toyota hit maker was brought back to the 2024 student election by an appeals Board of the school, on September 15, 2024, by a unanimous decision of 7-0.

Guru was earlier suspended by the vetting panel over his non-residential status, which is a violation of Article 30 of the UGSRC Constitution.

The disgruntled Presidential aspirant filed a petition against the University of Ghana’s Student Representative Council (SRC) Electoral Commission following his disqualification from the race.

The SRC Judiciary Board quashed his appeal by a 3-2 split decision. Following his re-instatement, Mawuli among other requests is praying the court to declare that “the decision by the vetting committee of the SRC to disqualify Adjei Yeboah Maradona and Emmanuel Owusu Amponsah for their failure to meet the qualification requirement under article 30(1)(a) of the SRC constitution is in accordance with law and of binding effect.”

The plaintiff also wants “an order directed at the 4th defendant (UGSRC EC Mudassir-Ibn Ibrahim) to refrain from including Adjei Yeboah Maradona and Emmanuel Owusu Amponsah in the list of candidates to partake in the balloting and subsequent contest of the 2024 SRC election of the University of Ghana.”

Despite this plea, sources in the EC tells TV3’s Frederick Kunzote-Ani that the Commission is going ahead with the online election scheduled for Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

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