An Accra High Court will give its ruling on a case brought before it by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) against the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for disqualifying its flag bearer from the 2016 presidential poll on Friday October 28.
Class FM’s Atiewin Mbillah who was in court, reported that the judge, after listening to arguments from both sides, fixed a date for his ruling.
“We are optimistic that by Friday the ruling will go in our favour and Dr Nduom will be on the ballot,” Kofi Asamoah-Siaw, Policy Analyst of the PPP, said.
The PPP sued the election management body over the disqualification of its flag bearer, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, from contesting in the December polls over alleged illegalities on the nomination forms.
The party was part of 12 others which had their flag bearers disqualified from contesting in the elections.
During the last hearing, the court granted an application by the EC to abridge the time for the hearing of the injunction suit from going ahead with the processes to conduct elections in December.
The PPP is seeking “an order of prohibition to restrain the EC from proceeding with balloting for position of presidential candidates for the 7th December elections.
The plaintiff is also seeking “…a further order directed against the 1st Respondent in her capacity as Returning Officer for Presidential elections to grant the Applicant the opportunity to amend and alter the one anomaly found in his nomination papers as well as accept his nomination papers as amended or altered to enable him contest as a Presidential Candidate for the 7th December 2016 elections.”
The suit has Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom as the ex parte applicant, Charlotte Osei, the EC Chairperson, as the first respondent, and the EC as the second respondent.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
