Supreme Court order EC to allow disqualified candidates to correct errors on their nomination forms

The Supreme Court has ordered the EC to take steps to allow 12 disqualified candidates to correct errors on their nomination forms that formed the basis for their disqualification.

In a unanimous decision read by the presiding judge Justice Sophia Adinyira, the apex court ordered the EC to extend close of nomination period from Monday to Tuesday.

The judges also ordered a suspension of all lawsuits challenging the EC’s disqualifications of flagbearers for them to amend the errors on their forms.

The Commission had asked the Apex Court to review thelower court’s judgment, and hopefully bring closure to the five other lawsuits contesting the disqualification of other presidential aspirants.

Background

The EC rejected Dr. Nduom’s nomination claiming the number of subscribers to his forms did not meet the requirements of Regulation 7 (2) (b) of CI 94 [the law regulating the conduct of the 2016 elections].

The Commission said one of his [Dr. Nduom’s] subscribers, endorsed the form with different signatures in both portions of the nomination form, raising questions as to the legitimacy of one or both signatures.

But lawyers of the PPP argued that, the EC did not give them the opportunity to correct the errors on the nomination forms.

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