The flag bearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama will need to correct 303 errors on his presidential nomination forms if he is to find his face on the ballot paper for this year’s presidential race.
Dr Mahama who was disqualified over four mistakes now has been confronted with an additional 299 more.
Meanwhile, 33 new “irregularities” have been detected on the presidential nomination forms of the National Democratic Party’s flag bearer Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
The Electoral Commission has described those errors as “concerns and discrepancies” which the former First Lady must correct before the Tuesday, 5pm deadline if she should qualify to run in this year’s presidential race.
On October 10, the EC disqualified Mrs Rawlings over one discrepancy but following a ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the disqualified aspirants to correct their errors, the election management member said it has found more errors which need correcting. The new errors have to do with different signatures of the subscribers on the nomination forms.
The NDP in a statement, however, said: “This is not right. This cannot be legal. This is a clear violation of our human rights.” “We reject this trick of the EC. We reject this clear attempt at victimisation by the EC”.
“The EC has shown its hand, that it is actuated and driven, not by a desire to deliver a world-class election in Ghana, but simply to hand the presidency to a selected candidate.” “We are calling upon the EC to immediately desist [from] its oppressive tactics and with immediate effect reverse this illegal demand of us; else we would have no option but to return to court,” the NDP warned.
The NDP is not the only party that has seen its errors increase. The Progressive People’s Party’s errors have increased from 1 to 105 while that of the APC has shot up from 2 to 95.
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