The Electoral Commission has said that it will not consider appeals from any of the political parties disqualified from this year\u2019s presidential elections.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Communications Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Yusif\u00a0Ayuba, in an interview on Citi FM\u2019s Campaign Trail<\/strong> programme on Monday, argued that the Commission followed due procedure in vetting and announcing the status of the respective political parties aspiring for presidency in the upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cwe made it clear that they must make sure that they meet all the requirements in law to be able to qualify to become candidates. For the forms that they submitted to the Electoral Commission, we went through it and we realized a number anomalies. Those who brought the forms early we notified them to come and pick them and make sure that they do the correction and resubmit them within the stipulated time in law.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”qRgCwHZ2voh2wY8VZ4ikljjugj34Xf7g”]\u201cThe Electoral Commission did its homework well. We did due diligence to the information that they provided and based on the requirement of law, we disqualified persons who did not meet those requirements,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n When asked whether the Commission will consider appeals from any of the disqualified political parties, Ayuba responded in the negative saying \u201cwhy should we consider an appeal from any of the political parties? It is within the time frame; that is 29th<\/sup> and 30th<\/sup> of September, that is when you should submit your nomination forms, after 30th<\/sup> September, you cannot submit any corrected nomination forms.\u201d<\/p>\n The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, on Monday announced that, 13 presidential aspirants including the Progressive People\u2019s Party\u2019s Papa Kwesi Nduom, People\u2019s National Convention\u2019s Edward Mahama and Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings of the National Democratic Party, had been disqualified from the 2016 presidential elections.<\/p>\n According to the EC boss, the parties failed to meet the electoral requirements in filling their nomination forms after vetting them.<\/p>\n Some offences of the disqualified persons included suspected forged signatures, subscription by double-registered persons, and failure to endorse some pages of the nomination documents by the aspirants.<\/p>\n Officials of some of the affected political parties have given indications they will seek redress in court to ensure their flagbearers are reinstated in the presidential race.<\/p>\n However the Electoral Commission is certain it did due diligence in rejecting the nomination of\u00a0all the 13 aspirants.<\/p>\n It argued that it had given enough time to the various candidates to ensure their documents were appropriately completed before the submission deadline on Monday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Electoral Commission has said that it will not consider appeals from any of the political parties disqualified from this year\u2019s presidential elections. The Deputy Communications Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Yusif\u00a0Ayuba, in an interview on Citi FM\u2019s Campaign Trail programme on Monday, argued that the Commission followed due procedure in vetting and announcing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":253505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2647,2648,58,10,11],"tags":[679,5529,556,2356,5162],"yoast_head":"\n