Don’t Openly Support Political Parties
The Paramount Chief of the Nzema Traditional Area and acting Vice-President of the National House of Chiefs, Awulae Ati Brukusu, has lashed out at chiefs who have openly declared support for one...
Tag: Electoral Commission
Pull Back From Brink of Electoral, Potential Constitutional Chaos
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) fears the new twist to the issue of Electoral Commission (EC) finding new errors in the nomination forms of presidential aspirants has the...
PPP’s Controversial Aseda Testifies At EC; Says He Didn’t Endorse Nduom
Richard Aseda, whose contentious details led to the disqualification of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, was Tuesday dragged to the Electoral Commission’s office to testify. Counsel for Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom,...
Don’t Abuse Your Discretionary Power – CDD To EC
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has described the Electoral Commission’s (EC) detection of new errors on the nomination forms of the previously disqualified presidential...
Nduom Submits ‘cleansed’ Nomination Form To EC
Lawyers for the Progressive People’s Party have submitted a cleaned version of the party’s presidential candidate’s nomination form to the Electoral Commission, Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare...
PPP’s Controversial Aseda Testifies At EC; Says He Didn’t Endorse Nduom In C/R
Richard Aseda, whose contentious details led to the disqualification of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, was Tuesday dragged to the Electoral Commission’s office to testify. Counsel for Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom,...
EC Rigging Election For Mahama — NDP
The National Democratic Party (NDP) has raised concerns over the Electoral Commission’s treatment of its presidential candidate, alleging a possible attempt to rig the presidential race in favor of...
Where Is Thy Honour, Mrs. Osei?
Presided over by Mrs Justice Sophia Adinyira, the Supreme Court extended the nomination date to tomorrow, November 8, to enable all disqualified candidates to correct the mistakes on their forms and...
Peace Is The End Product Of Fairness, Let’s Not Pretend
Peace Peace Peace! All over the country, everybody is calling for peace. Yes we want peace before, during and after the election but calling for Peace without hammering on fairness is an act of...
My Fate Is In EC’s Hands
Presidential nominee for the United Progressive Party, Akwasi Addai Odike, whose disqualification was based on a court case challenging his status in his party, says his fate is in the hands of the...
EC Should Not Complicate Matters For Disqualified Candidates – Peace Council
The Peace Council has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to assist disqualified presidential candidates in making the needed corrections on their nomination forms. Council Chairman, Rev Prof...
Over 400 PPP Supporters In Accra To Sign Nduom’s Forms
More than four hundred (400) supporters of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), from across the country, have arrived in Accra to append their signatures to the nomination forms of the party’s...
EC Is Acting Like Nebuchadnezzar
Embattled Presidential nominee of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Dr Edward Nasigre Mahama has described the Electoral Commission (EC) as Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible who dreamt and didn’t...
I Am Shocked About Fresh Mistakes Identified By EC
Disqualified Presidential nominees are shocked over the new errors identified on their nomination forms by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC). The Supreme Court by a unanimous decision ordered...
PPP Dares EC; Says It Will Correct Only One Error
Although the Commission had disqualified Dr Nduom on just one ground, the party says just after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that they be given the chance to correct that error, the EC claimed it...
Fresh Errors: EC Must Give Room For Corrections
Private legal practitioner, Obiri Boahen, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to give the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) and other parties enough time to correct their fresh errors . He said the...
A Thorny Democracy
I haven't had a chance to eavesdrop on conversations between strangers for a long time. It's a favorite pastime, to sit on the adjacent table and actively listen to the arguments and illogic of...
EC Will Lose If Sued – Mike Ocquaye
For adding new errors to the originally detected one, the Electoral Commission will lose in court if sued by any of the political parties that has been given up to 5pm Tuesday, 8 November to correct...
Defuse the Tension – Peace Council To EC
The National Peace Council (NPC) has counseled the Electoral Commission to abide by the Supreme Court’s fiat that disqualified political parties should be given a second chance to fix errors on...
EC Discovers 231 Errors On Nduom, Konadu’s Nomination Forms
The Electoral Commission has discovered more errors on the nomination forms of presidential candidates who were disqualified for the 2016 general elections. This comes after the Supreme Court on...