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The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to take immediate steps to delete the names of all unqualified persons on the electoral roll as stated in its earlier judgment delivered on May 5, 2016.
 
This includes the names of some 56,739 persons the Commission presented to the court as persons who registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards as proof of their citizenship.

In a ruling Tuesday to clarify the judgement, the court stated that the order for the deletion of unqualified persons on the voters register "takes precedence over all statuary legislations including CI 9”.

Reading the judgement, Justice Sulley Gbadegbe said, "The EC is therefore ordered to take all the necessary steps to delete the names submitted to the court"

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The court also ordered the EC to delete the names of those who are not qualified but whose names were not submitted to the court.

It also ordered the EC to give adequate notice to persons affected by the deletion and afford them ample time to re-register if they qualify to enable them vote in the 2016 elections.