The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission(EC) of Ghana to extend close of nomination period from today Monday, November 07, 2016 to tomorrow Tuesday, November 08, 2016.
The ruling read by Justice Sophia Adinyira, the presiding judge is to enable all the disqualified candidates to correct errors on their nomination forms.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the EC's suit challenging an High court ruling asking them to allow the PPP's presidential candidate Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom to correct his nomination form errors.
A seven-member panel in the Monday ruling asked the commission to extend the nomination period to November 8, 2016 to give room for the other candidates to correct their mistakes in order to contest in the December polls.
The court also ordered the discontinuation of the various court cases regarding the disqualification of other presidential aspirants.
The EC disqualified several presidential candidates from the December polls for various errors detected in their nomination forms.
Supreme Court's Directive:
The Supreme Court mindful of the importance that elections should be concluded as early as possible according to time schedule and the limited time available for the Applicant to complete processes prior to the printing of presidential ballot papers and collation sheets etc, and in order to ensure prevalence of justice equity and fairness in the election process we thereby proceed to give the following directives while taking judicial notice of the plethora of cases pending in various High Courts with similar claims and cause of action:
1. The EC is to extend the nomination period from today Monday 7 November 2016 to the close of working day of Tuesday 8 November 2016.
2. Invite all the disqualified presidential candidates who were able to submit their nomination papers by the close of the nomination day of 30 October 2016.
3. To give the candidates a hearing within the extended period.
4. In appropriate cases, to afford candidates, the opportunity to comply with regulation 9 (2) (b)
5. The EC to declare the names of candidates so nominated per regulations 7, 8, and 9 of CI. 94; by the close of working day of Wednesday 9 November 2016.
6. Balloting of positions of candidates to take place the next day by the close of working day of Thursday 10 November.
7. As a result of the above directives, we find it necessary to make a consequential order to stay all court proceedings against the Applicant in relation to disqualification of pending in the High Court, to enable the EC to carry out its mandate;
8. We accordingly stay all proceedings in the High Court as aforesaid.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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If you run to a court for justice and all the seven member presiding judges unanimously judge against you the complainant, then you have a problem. Either you are mischievous or incompetent. One can easily question your level of understanding of primary and or the rudiments your profession. Its a shame.
I knew it. I am not surprised. The Supreme Court's ruling has come to meet my expectation just like that. This is an act of commonsense many well-meaning people would have expected EC to have displayed. EC should stop messing up.
Its a shame that our referee does not know the rules of the game she is referring. Madam does not know which rules to apply and when she must apply that rule. I humbly plead with Madam to resign so a more competent person takes over who will be prepared to serve the interest of all Ghanaians and not a privileged few. We can't wait for you to carry out your so-called pause and recount order to plunge the nation into chaos. The time to resign is now!!!!!!!
Charlot there is another court you can go ok. The court of God, location is Heaven. ***barred word***...you have meet your meter. Y3b3 chiewu tis3 meko
EEEEEIIIII!!!! CHARLOTTE MAHAMA HAS LOOSE AGAIN.
Kudos to all the Supreme Court Judges for that wise judgement. This is what I call the "Spirit of the Law working for the people of Ghana. But it is rather unfortunate that Charlotte Osei with her so called qualification as a lawyer would be disgraced like these. She is a waste of of the hard earn tax payers money of Ghana. The Supreme court should even have fined her for wasting their precious time.
Please can't we sack Charlotte and the other six(6)Commissioners. They have a NEGATIVE agenda for this country but is high time we must tell them in their FACES that we OWN GHANA and NOT THEM. Change is truly COMING. Whether they like it or YES. Long Live Ghana And Short Live the Wicked Commissioners.
Charlotte Osei, now you have seen your real size. I thought you said EC is independent. You are too arrogant for that position, please keep your nose down.
KABA PLEASE I BEG YOU IN JESUS NAME BRING HON. KEN AGYAPONG ON ASEMPA SHOW THIS EVENING BECAUSE HE IS PROPHET EVERYTHING HE SAID ABOUT THIS EC BOSS IS TRUE , PLEASE WE NEED TO CHECK THIS WOMAN VERY CLOSELY BECAUSE SHE CAN BRING CIVIL WAR IN GHANA. HESIH WHAT A WICHT BAYIFUOOO WOMAN
Charlotte keeps loosing credibility in my sight i listened to her presentation at chatham house and a whole electoral commissioner who is only to declare the outcome of an election was sure one candidate(Hassan Ayariga) is a looser, if that is the case then you have declared for yourself who can or will surely win. first she was stubborn then she later loosened up but decided to outsmart Ghanaians through con ways, making them believe she has the best of intentions for the nation and when she has fully gained the confidence of the people steal from them on their blind eye. and this woman does not appear as a serious person, whenever she is making an important presentation she always seem to add that female azaaa nature. she likes being playful too much, agor0 wo nani so dodo.she is now behaving like a confident trickster and that ring she wears on her right finger almost all the time, i dont know why i always have funny feelings about that ring. charlotte is some way bi.