Today, Friday September 30, 2016, is the deadline for all presidential and parliamentary aspirants to submit their nomination forms to the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana.
The EC on September 13 opened nominations for all registered political parties and independent aspirants to pick nomination forms ahead of the December 7 polls. They have up to 5pm today (Friday, 30 September) to submit their forms.
So far nine presidential aspirants including Nana Akufo-Addo, President John Dramani Mahama, and Kofi Akpaloo, flag bearers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Independent People’s Party (IPP), respectively, have submitted their forms. Others include Agyenim Boateng, United Front Party (UFP); Dr Hassan Ayariga, All People’s Congress (APC); and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, National Democratic Party (NDP). They all submitted their forms on Thursday September 29.
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), whose flag bearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom is yet to submit his forms, sued the election management body a few weeks ago in an attempt to have the court force it to review the presidential nomination fee – GHS50,000.
The PPP is seeking a declaration that Regulation 45 of C.I. 94 is discriminatory, arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable. “That the entire C.I. 94 does not contain the appropriate relevant provisions that meet the intendment of Article 296 of the 1992 Constitution.”
The other reliefs sought include: “A declaration that the proper instrument within the meaning of the relevant laws of the Republic of Ghana, in charging a deposit or fees for conducting a presidential or parliamentary election, by the Electoral Commission, is a statutory instrument and not constitutional instrument. An order directed at the defendants to desist from collecting and or receiving the said deposit or fees for the conduct of the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections until the appropriate statutory instruments have been passed in accordance with appropriate legal rights.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
