🟥JUST IN 🟥 MK Veteran Tony Yengeni has written to the ANC electoral body led by Kgalema Motlanthe to appeal his disqualification to contest for NEC position in the upcoming 55th National Conference.
🟥BREAKING NEWS🟥 MK Veteran Tony Yengeni has been disqualified from standing for the national executive committee (NEC) at the party's national elective conference next week. pic.twitter.com/ri5Vz8TwRO
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In a letter addressed to Yengeni on Friday, November 9, the ANC Electoral Body, said the vetting process revealed information that negatively affects Yengeni’s eligibility to stand for nomination as a candidate in the NEC.
“The vetting process as administered by the agency of the Electoral Committee known as Elexions has revealed information that negatively affects your eligibility to stand for nomination as a candidate for all NEC positions during the 55th National Conference. The vetting information at our disposal reveals that you have a historical record of being found guilty of a serious crime in a court of law for which the prison sentence had been more than six months. To be specific, you are summarily disqualified as a candidate for all NEC positions, including additional members during the 55th National Conference, as per the rules that have been approved by the NEC,” the committee said.
“After more than 10 years of the sentence I applied to the director-general of the justice and constitutional development for the expungement of my criminal record. My application was approved”said Yengeni
“The resolution on which you seek to disqualify me from participation at the upcoming 55th National Conference of the ANC was only taken in 2017, however I had been sentenced more than 15 years since then and had also been punished by the ANC for the said offence.
“To now seek to apply the 2017 conference resolution in retrospect to offences committed prior thereto is both unlawful and unconstitutional.”
“Your ruling and/or decision, which seeks to continue to perpetuate that I have a criminal record is therefore unlawful as it is against the constitution and the law, but most importantly it seeks to infringe upon my rights as enshrined in section 19 of the constitution,”
Yengeni further said he looks forward to the Electoral Body’s positive reply so that he can weigh his legal options.
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