{"id":266201,"date":"2016-11-08T05:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=266201"},"modified":"2016-11-08T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:59:21","slug":"pnc-threatens-supreme-court-lawsuit-over-nomination-forms-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/pnc-threatens-supreme-court-lawsuit-over-nomination-forms-if\/","title":{"rendered":"PNC threatens Supreme Court lawsuit over nomination forms if…"},"content":{"rendered":"
The People’s National Congress (PNC) has demanded that the Electoral Commission (EC) provide copies of all four submitted nomination forms of its presidential aspirant, Dr. Edward Mahama, so it can adequately correct all errors on the forms.<\/p>\n
The PNC has said it will head to the Supreme Court to further extend the nomination period if it does not receive all the copies by 8:00 am today [Tuesday].<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”F4uJwcNMPULP7SUkfRdEcJc0t9s3i6Hb”]This was contained in a letter addressed to the EC after the\u00a0Supreme Court ordered the Commission to extend the nomination period<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to 5:00 pm today.<\/p>\n In the letter, the PNC said to the EC, “we notice that you have presented back to us only a single copy of nomination forms, whilst we submitted the forms in quadruplicate. We understand that you are entitled to keep copies of the original nomination forms submitted to you. You may even keep the originals and avail us copies of all four nomination forms.\u201d<\/p>\n The PNC explained that its demand was “to ensure that all minor errors across the 4 sets of nomination forms and not just one are carefully and thoroughly addressed.”<\/p>\n “We are unable to do this without the originals or copies of all the nomination forms submitted in triplicate. Please be advised that unless we receive the originals of copies of all the four nomination forms, we will be unable to commence the arduous process of correcting the minor errors in the forms,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n Thus the PNC served notice of its ultimatum saying, “If we do not receive the quadruplicate originals or copies of all the nomination forms we submitted by 8 am tomorrow morning of the 8th<\/sup> of November, we will be compelled to invoke the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to order that we be given the originals or copies and to extend the time which we may make the said corrections.\u201d<\/p>\n