The courts will today, Friday, November 4, hear three suits filed separately by the flag bearers of the National Democratic Party (NDP), People’s National Convention (PNC), and All People’s Congress (APC) challenging their disqualification from the presidential race in December.
Lawyers for the Electoral Commission on Tuesday November 1 failed to show up when cases of the NDP and PNC were called at two separate courts because Mr Thaddeus Sory, lead counsel for the election management body, was attending to the APC case in another court room.
The judge that sat on the PNC case awarded a cost of GHS500 against the EC.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings of the NDP, Hassan Ayariga of the APC, and Dr Edward Mahama of the PNC were three of 13 presidential aspirants disqualified by the Electoral Commission from participating in the December polls for anomalies on their nomination forms.
The aspirants are contesting their disqualification in court.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is also expected to rule on a case between the EC and the Progressive People’s Party today. The EC filed a certiorari at the Supreme Court following a High Court ruling that quashed the EC’s disqualification of flag bearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom from the race.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
