{"id":265787,"date":"2016-11-07T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265787"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T11:54:48","slug":"supreme-court-orders-ec-to-extend-nomination-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/supreme-court-orders-ec-to-extend-nomination-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court orders EC to extend nomination period"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November 8 2016 for all disqualified presidential aspirants.<\/p>\n
The judges also ordered a suspension of all lawsuits challenging the EC’s disqualifications of flagbearers, for affected parties to amend the errors on their forms.<\/p>\n
In explaining the judgment of the seven-member panel of Justices, the presiding Justice, Sophia Adinyira, said their decision was to enable the EC give hearing to all parties involved in the legal tussle over the disqualification, due to limited time left for the election to be held.<\/p>\n
The Commission had asked the Apex Court to review an earlier judgement by a high court and hopefully bring closure to the five other lawsuits contesting the disqualification of other presidential aspirants.<\/p>\n