{"id":270977,"date":"2016-11-23T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T11:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270977"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T11:47:24","slug":"supreme-court-throws-out-ward-brews-case-against-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270977","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court throws out Ward Brew’s case against EC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by the flagbearer of the dormant Democratic People’s Party (DPP), Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew, who had prayed the apex court to order the Electoral Commission (EC) to postpone the December 7, 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

According to the seven-member panel of justices, presided over by Sophia Adinyira, the suit by Mr. Brew lacked merit in both form and substance.<\/p>\n

They also stated that, his reason of being in Nigeria during the period which EC was directed to allow disqualified presidential candidates make corrections to their form was frivilous.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Ward Brew wanted the Court to ask the EC to allow him to effect the necessary correction on his nomination forms to enable him to contest the polls.<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Ward-Brew, the postponement would give disqualified presidential aspirants, including him, ample time to campaign.<\/p>\n

He further prayed the Supreme Court to extend the period of time for the submission of nomination forms.<\/p>\n

Nduom, two others cleared to contest 2016 presidential elections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Brew is among nine other presidential hopefuls who were disqualified for not meeting the EC’s requirements in the filling of nomination forms.<\/p>\n

He went to court after three of the \u00a0twelve, including the PPP’s Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, NDP’s Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, and the PNC’s Dr. Edward Mahama, were admitted back onto the ballot, bringing the number of contestants to seven.<\/p>\n

This was made possible by a Supreme Court ruling, after the EC had gone there to quash a High Court ruling that rejected\u00a0Dr.Nduom’s earlier disqualifcation, and asked the Commission to allow him\u00a0ample time to correct the errors on his forms.<\/p>\n

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By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by the flagbearer of the dormant Democratic People’s Party (DPP), Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew, who had prayed the apex court to order the Electoral Commission (EC) to postpone the December 7, 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections. According to the seven-member panel of justices, presided over by Sophia Adinyira, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":270410,"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":[2647,2648,10,11],"tags":[5162,3841,13788],"class_list":["post-270977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghelections","tag-supreme-court","tag-ward-brew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270977","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}