Ghanaian Rapper, Maradona Adjei Yeboah, popularly known as Guru has been disqualified from the University of Ghana Students’ Representative Council (UGSRC) Presidential race.
He was amongst five persons on the President and Vice Presidential race of UGSRC.
This was contained in a statement by the Office of the Electoral Commission Student’s Representative Council, University of Ghana.
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The EC noted that the Vetting Committee of the UGSRC conducted vetted all aspirants which included three treasurer aspirants, three General Secretary Aspirants, and five Presidential and Vice Presidential aspirants. According to the EC, upon a careful examination of the documents submitted, it was discovered that two candidates indicated their non-resident status, which they further confirmed during the vetting process.
These aspirants are Maradona Adjei Yeboah and Lawrence Edinam Egleh.
Considering the Article 30(1)(a) of the UGSRC Constitution under “Qualification”, “(1) A student shall not be qualified for election to any executive office unless:
1. He is qualified to contest elections under his hall’s Constitution, except that a provision requiring a student to be in at least his third year in this University shall not disqualify such a person from contesting for any office under this article.”
Per the statement, it is clear that the test of qualification of a candidate in the UGSRC General Election includes 1. Whether the candidate qualifies to be an Executive Officer of his or her residence (JCR).
2. It follows that a critical qualification criteria is a person’s qualification to be an Executive Officer his or her hall of residence (JCR).
3. It further implies that where a person does not belong to any hall of residence (ICR) then the person does not qualify to be an Executive Officer of a hall of residence (JCR) and consequently not qualified or eligible to be an Executive Officer of the University of Ghana Students* Representative Council (UGSRC).
4. On a total reading of the UGSRC Constitution, it would be seen that it is the intention of the framers of the constitution that for a person to qualify to be an Executive Officer of the UGSRC, the person should have qualified to be an Executive Officer of a hall of residence (JCR).
Meanwhile, the EC said the committee after a critical assessment of the qualification criteria noticed that, Maradona Adjei Yeboah and Lawrence Edinam Egleh do not meet the Criteria stated in article 30(1)(a) of the UGSRC Constitution and therefore do not qualify or are not eligible to contest for an Executive Officer position of the University of Ghana Students’ Representative Council (UGSRC).
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