{"id":253716,"date":"2016-09-30T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253716"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:07:47","slug":"d-day-for-submission-of-nomination-forms-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/d-day-for-submission-of-nomination-forms-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"D-day for submission of nomination forms [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political parties in the country have up to 5:00pm today [Friday, September 30, 2016] to submit nomination forms for their presidential and parliamentary candidates or forget the December 7 polls.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_253739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253739\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253739\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-16_900x600.jpg\" alt=\"GCPP Flagbearer [Right]\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GCPP Flagbearer [Right]<\/figcaption><\/figure>In the case of the presidential candidates, the parties are supposed to submit the forms at the Electoral Commission\u2019s head office in Accra whereas those of parliamentary candidates are to do same at EC\u2019s district offices nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253741 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-3_900x506.jpg\" alt=\"gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-3_900x506\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The EC slated the last two days in September to receive the completed forms from prospective candidates after it opened nominations earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253733\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253733\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-11_900x506.jpg\" alt=\"Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, PPP Chairman and team presenting Nduom's forms\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, PPP Chairman and team presenting Nduom&#8217;s forms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>12 political parties have so far presented forms of their presidential nominees to the EC in a hope to get them on the ballot paper on December 7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253743 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-9_900x544.jpg\" alt=\"gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-9_900x544\" width=\"900\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They include: the New Patriotic Party (NPP), National Democratic Congress (NDC), United Front Party (UFP), United Progressive Party (UPP), All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), Independent People\u2019s Party (IPP), National Democratic Party (NDP).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253744\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253744\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-8_900x562.jpg\" alt=\"Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Samuel Tettey, \" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Samuel Tettey,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rest are the Reformed Patriotic Democrats (RPD), Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), Unity Development System Party (UDSP) and the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253738\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253738\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-15_900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Unity Development System Party (UDSP) Warrant Officer 1 Richard Nixon Tetteh and his team submitting their forms\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity Development System Party (UDSP) Warrant Officer 1 Richard Nixon Tetteh and his team submitting their forms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Filing fee brouhaha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EC declined accepting the filing fees of GHc50, 000 and GHc10, 000 for presidential and parliamentary candidates respectively because of a law suit filed by the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-14_900x506.jpg\" alt=\"gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-14_900x506\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the parties had complained that the amount was too high.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253745 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-6_900x506.jpg\" alt=\"gcpp-ppp-others-file-nominations-6_900x506\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the EC today refused to give back to the PPP its filing fee after the party\u2019s Chairman, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond presented the forms of the party\u2019s flagbearer, Paa Kwesi Nduom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-253507 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/c957c4bb-9004-402e-a7c8-05c321501e43.jpg\" alt=\"c957c4bb-9004-402e-a7c8-05c321501e43\" width=\"657\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>23 parties pick forms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 23 parties picked nomination forms to contest in the race on December 7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-253471 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5eab23ee-4489-4d58-ac2a-60824ca8f4aa.jpg\" alt=\"5eab23ee-4489-4d58-ac2a-60824ca8f4aa\" width=\"635\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253444\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253444\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Amissah-Arthur-NDC-submits-nominatin-forms-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur submitted Mahama's forms\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur submitted Mahama&#8217;s forms on Thursday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253439 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Amissah-Arthur-NDC-submits-nominatin-forms-2.jpg\" alt=\"amissah-arthur-ndc-submits-nominatin-forms-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253252\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253252\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nana-Addo3.jpeg\" alt=\"New Patriotic Party Flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, submitted his forms on Thursday\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Patriotic Party Flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, submitted his forms on 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