{"id":95214,"date":"2015-02-28T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=95214"},"modified":"2015-02-28T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:02:41","slug":"supreme-court-ruling-on-local-elections-good-for-ghana-codeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/supreme-court-ruling-on-local-elections-good-for-ghana-codeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court ruling on local elections good for Ghana – CODEO"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Coalition Of Election Observers (CODEO) says the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on the district assembly elections will force other state institutions to conduct due diligence in doing their work.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Electoral Commission to suspend the district assembly election scheduled for March 3, 2015.<\/p>\n
The 7-member panel of judges led by Justice William Atuguba on Friday ruled in favour of one \u00a0Benjamin Eyi Mensah, a fisherman who challenged the EC\u2019sdecison that prevented him filing nomination forms to contest in the Eyipeh Electoral Area, before the maturation of the Constitutional Instrument\u00a0 (CI) 85.<\/p>\n