Public sentiments have indicated that both the National Election Commission (NEC) and main opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) are in a blame game over the party’s failure to field a candidate in the pending Montserrado County District # 11 by-election. The election is slated for July 3, 2012.
NEC Tuesday (May 22) announced that it did not receive a nomination paper from the CDC, causing the party not to field a candidate in the by-election intended to fill the vacancy created by the demise of its partisan, Rep. Moses S. Tandapollie.
But the CDC, in its reaction, stated that NEC denied it from fielding a candidate, because the party went at the commission headquarters with the name of its nominee, but was rejected on ground that the deadline has elapsed. Continue reading →
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