{"id":256838,"date":"2016-10-10T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256838"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:32:04","slug":"mahama-nana-addo-greenstreet-and-joy-cleared-for-2016-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/mahama-nana-addo-greenstreet-and-joy-cleared-for-2016-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama, Nana Addo, Greenstreet, and JOY cleared for 2016 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Presidential candidates of\u00a0the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Convention People\u2019s Party’s Ivor Greenstreet, and Jacob Osei Yeboah [JOY], an independent candidate, are the only persons who have been qualified by the Electoral Commission, to contest this year\u2019s presidential elections.<\/p>\n
The four were cleared by the Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday [October 10], after their nomination forms were vetted out of the lot.<\/p>\n
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei said the candidates had qualified after meeting \u201cthe requirements of the electoral laws\u201d.<\/p>\n
She made the declaration at a press conference at the EC\u2019s Head Office in Accra, following the closing of payment of filing fees by the presidential and parliamentary candidates of the various parties.<\/p>\n
This means that, twelve presidential aspirants, will not be contesting in the elections because according to the EC, all the parties failed to meet certain critical requirements in the filling of the forms.<\/p>\n