{"id":266859,"date":"2016-11-10T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=266859"},"modified":"2016-11-10T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:33:09","slug":"ec-shouldve-opted-for-dialogue-avoided-courts-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=266859","title":{"rendered":"EC should’ve opted for dialogue instead of courts – Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The legal tussles that have dominated the news ahead of the elections in recent times could have been avoided if the Electoral Commission (EC) had adopted a dialogue oriented approach,\u00a0Former President, John Agyekum Kufour has stated.<\/p>\n

The Commission\u00a0had initially disqualified 13 out of 17 flagbearers from the presidential race for filing presidential nomination forms with anomalies.<\/p>\n

But legal challenges from a number of the political parties saw 3 of the disqualified aspirants make their way back<\/a><\/strong><\/span> into the presidential race.<\/p>\n

In reference to the court cases surrounding the Commission’s disqualification of the presidential aspirants, Mr. Kufuor\u00a0said the legal battles could have been prevented if the EC\u00a0had engaged political parties with\u00a0alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Osei, EC Chairperson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking at a programme dubbed \u201cA Conversation on Leadership and the Future of Africa\u201d at his residence yesterday [Wednesday], he maintained said, “we needn\u2019t have gone to court… if everybody had been mindful, including the Electoral Commission (EC), the Peace Council, government, perhaps the method of resolution should have been one of the alternative dispute resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

“What perhaps the Electoral Commission should have done should have been to invite everybody, sit down say let\u2019s check this thing. This is not good so go and do it, I give you another week,” he added.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kufuor\u00a0also reminded the EC that it was not above the law as evidenced by the Supreme Court’s intervention<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the litigation from some political parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo institution is sacrosanct. No one is above the law or should be above the law and when I say this I include even the Electoral Commission. Yes the constitution provides its independence but it is the same constitution that provides for a Supreme Court that can judicially review anything within the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legal tussles that have dominated the news ahead of the elections in recent times could have been avoided if the Electoral Commission (EC) had adopted a dialogue oriented approach,\u00a0Former President, John Agyekum Kufour has stated. The Commission\u00a0had initially disqualified 13 out of 17 flagbearers from the presidential race for filing presidential nomination forms with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[6177,2356,3,13485],"class_list":["post-266859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-electoral-commission-of-ghana","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-john-agyekum-kufour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}