{"id":265961,"date":"2016-11-07T14:53:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265961"},"modified":"2016-11-07T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:53:30","slug":"ecs-disqualification-supreme-court-ruling-may-bring-finality-akapame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/ecs-disqualification-supreme-court-ruling-may-bring-finality-akapame\/","title":{"rendered":"EC&#8217;s disqualification: Supreme Court ruling may bring finality -Akapame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Law Lecturer at the GIMPA School of Law, Clement Akapame, is optimistic the Supreme Court\u2019s judgement on the Electoral Commission\u2019s suit challenging the High Court\u2019s decision to overturn the disqualification of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom from the December election, will bring some finality to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the EC\u2019s case challenging Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom&#8217;s disqualification, and ordered the Commission to rather extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November,8 2016, for all disqualified presidential aspirants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_257631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257631\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257631\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/charlotte-osei.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Osei\" width=\"458\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Osei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SdBYxrSI45uJZLaVPPFXQVtfWV8243Xv&#8221;]Speaking on <strong>Citi Prime News<\/strong>, Mr. Akapame said the Supreme Court\u2019s judgement will give all the disqualified aspirants another opportunity to correct mistakes on their nomination forms, thus \u201cbringing some finality to the question of hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was however quick to add that, the court\u2019s order \u201cwill open the question as to whether or not some of the issues being complained about by the EC are errors that can be corrected or issues that border on criminality as the EC has pointed out in relation to Papa Kwesi Nduom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Akapame argued that, since all the twelve aspirants that were disqualified had\u00a0different levels\u00a0of errors, &#8220;we need to find out how the EC intends to implement this directive of the Supreme Court. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The directive is clear that if there are errors; allow those errors to be corrected; so now that is where the challenge is. 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