GIJ SRC Election: a female presidential aspirant has lost again

For the third time, a female aspirant has lost in the Student Representative Council (SRC) presidential election of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ). 

The only female presidential candidate among seven aspirants in the 2019 GIJ-SRC presidential election, Louisa Kwakye has lost after much anticipation. 

  

The election which was rescheduled after students protested over delay in printing ballot papers, has been held and the Electoral commission has released provisional results.

Joseph Abezuke emerged winner with 424 votes against six others, among whom Louisa got 348.

On the newly scheduled day of the election, Friday, April 28, a final year student of the institute was arrested for allegedly attempting to place 19 already printed ballot papers for one candidate in the ballot box. 

The first two female students to contest in GIJ-SRC presidential election, Nana Akua Twumwaa Asare and Stephanie Adenyo lost in the 2014 and 2015 elections respectively.

In an interesting development, the University of Development Studies has elected its first ever female SRC president to steer the affairs of the Student Representative Council (SRC). Zeinab Mohammed Denderi won the Nyankpala Campus run-off elections by a slim margin of 10 votes. 

Below are the full 2019 presidential election results:

GIJ-SRC 2019/2020 Election provisional results for all polling stations 

SRC President
Evans Mensah - 317
Charles Armah- 65
Louisa Kwakye - 348
Joseph Agbezuke - 424
Philip Sabah - 267
Fauzu Masawudu - 377
Verdict Noble - 135
Rejected - 28