Lead Counsel for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has expressed fears that the new deadline for the submission of nomination forms, tomorrow 5:00pm, may not be enough for...
The errors which formed basis for the disqualification of the Progressive People Party flagbearer appears to have increased from 1 to 105, Joy News has learnt. Lawyer for the PPP flagbearer Ayikoi...
Representatives of the various political parties who are battling the disqualification of their presidential aspirants from the 2016 election over errors on their nomination forms, are angry with the...
Lead Counsel for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has expressed fears that the new deadline for the submission of nomination forms, tomorrow 5:00pm, may not be enough for...
The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November,8 2016. The judges also ordered a suspension of all lawsuits challenging the...
In exactly four weeks from now, registered Ghanaians of voting age will get the opportunity to partake in choosing our national leaders for the next four years. The international community keeps...
With 31 days to the elections, uncertainty over the number of contestants and several litigations in court, will the general elections come off on the constitutionally set date -December 7? Three...
The Supreme Court’s seven member panel presided over by Justice Sophia Adinyria will deliver its verdict on the suit filed by Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) challenging a high court judgement...
The Supreme Court has abridged the date for the hearing of an application filed by Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) challenging a high court decision which overturned its disqualification of...
The Electoral Commission is appealing to the Supreme Court to set an early date for its motion seeking to overturn the High court’s ruling in the case involving the PPP. The Electoral Commission on...
Stephen Kwaku Asare, a US-based Ghanaian lawyer has urged the court system to send a strong signal to the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission(EC) Charlotte Osei on her belligerent posture, saying...
The nation’s election management body says it has filed for review at the Supreme Court over the decision. High Court judge Justice Kyei Baffour last Friday ruled that the EC should give Dr Nduom...
".... As of 2016, Freedom House assigns Ghana's electoral process a score of 12 out of 12, same as the UK.., the US a 11 out of 12... As far as we know, even if we were to entertain the idea that it...
Ghana’s Electoral Commission has been advised to immediately give all the presidential candidates it disqualified from this year’s elections the chance to correct errors on their nomination...
Former Attorney-general says the Electoral Commissioner is not a law unto herself adding the Commission is a creation of statute. Ayikoi Otoo says Charlotte Osei “must be reminded constantly that...
Premises of the Accra High Court went into frenzy on Friday October 28 after the court presided over by Justice Kyei Baffour, ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to allow Dr Nduom correct mistakes...
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana was “unreasonable” in disqualifying the flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) from the 2016 presidential race, a senior lecturer at the...
The decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to disqualify some flag bearers from contesting in the December 7 presidential election was “perverse, ultra vires and fatally flawed”, Kwaku Asare,...
The court victory by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) against the Electoral Commission on Friday, 28 October, shows “ours laws are working”, flag bearer of the All People’s Congress...
Ghana needs a strong opposition. Every country, every democracy benefits from a strong opposition. When people like Dr. Nduom challenge the system or speak out about injustice, it does not mean they...
