The Electoral Commission (EC) boss Charlotte Osei says
her outfit is happy that the disqualified presidential aspirants
"went to court to challenge the decision and not to the streets."
In an interview with BBC and
former Joy FM Anchor, Akwasi Sarpong on Thursday, Mrs. Osei insisted that the
commission acted in accordance with the law.
"It is proper for them to go
to court because...it is a rule of law, you are not happy with the decisions of
the commission, you go to court, you don't go to the streets," she noted.
About five out of some 13 presidential candidates who
were disqualified by the Electoral Commission are currently in court to quash
the decision.
An Accra High Court on Friday quashed
the decision of the commission to disqualify one of the
aspirants, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom who represents the Progressive
People's Party. It ordered that Dr. Nduom be given the opportunity to
correct the error on his nomination papers which formed the basis for his
disqualification.
The others, including the All
People's Congress (APC) 2016 flagbearer Hassan Ayariga, People's National
Convention (PNC) presidential candidate Dr. Edward Mahama, National Democratic
Party (NDP) presidential candidate Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and IPP
Candidate Kofi Akpaloo have argued that they were not given the chance to
rectify the anomalies on the forms.
But according to the EC, some of
the candidates were given opportunities to rectify as many as 30 errors on
their nomination forms.
"There was one candidate where we found about thirty
commissions, they were pointed out to him, he corrected...even the former First
Lady there were some omissions that we saw apparently on the document
and we pointed out."
She said some omissions which led
to the disqualification of some of the candidates were "only detected
after the deadline for the submission of the nomination forms", hence, the
commission acted in accordance with the law.
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