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The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by the flagbearer of the dormant Democratic People’s Party (DPP), Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew, who had prayed the apex court to order the Electoral Commission (EC) to postpone the December 7, 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

According to the seven-member panel of justices, presided over by Sophia Adinyira, the suit by Mr. Brew lacked merit in both form and substance.<\/p>\n

They also stated that, his reason of being in Nigeria during the period which EC was directed to allow disqualified presidential candidates make corrections to their form was frivilous.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Ward Brew wanted the Court to ask the EC to allow him to effect the necessary correction on his nomination forms to enable him to contest the polls.<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Ward-Brew, the postponement would give disqualified presidential aspirants, including him, ample time to campaign.<\/p>\n

He further prayed the Supreme Court to extend the period of time for the submission of nomination forms.<\/p>\n

Nduom, two others cleared to contest 2016 presidential elections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Brew is among nine other presidential hopefuls who were disqualified for not meeting the EC’s requirements in the filling of nomination forms.<\/p>\n

He went to court after three of the \u00a0twelve, including the PPP’s Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, NDP’s Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, and the PNC’s Dr. Edward Mahama, were admitted back onto the ballot, bringing the number of contestants to seven.<\/p>\n

This was made possible by a Supreme Court ruling, after the EC had gone there to quash a High Court ruling that rejected\u00a0Dr.Nduom’s earlier disqualifcation, and asked the Commission to allow him\u00a0ample time to correct the errors on his forms.<\/p>\n

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By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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