Attempts by the National Democratic Party to get its flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings appear on the ballot paper for the December 7 presidential elections suffered a major blow after an Accra High Court dismissed their suit against her disqualification on Thursday.
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday, October 10, disqualified the NDP flagbearer and eleven others from contesting the 2016 presidential elections over various anomalies on their nomination forms.
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According to the EC's Chairperson, Madam Charlotte Osei, in the case of Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings “the number of subscribers to her forms did not meet the requirements of Regulation 7 (2) (b) of CI 94".
The NDP, not pleased with the EC's decision, took the matter to court praying the Electoral Commission to reinstate the former First Lady as a presidential nominee in the December 7 polls.
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But in his judgment,  the presiding judge, Justice George Koomson,  stated that the filing was “incompetent†and imposed a fine of GHS10,000 on the NDP.
The NDP filed reliefs for human rights and judicial review of the decision by the Electoral Commission, but according to Justice Koomson, the NDP should have filed separate suits instead of lumping the two.
Reports filtering in however suggest that the NDP was to going to amend the suit and  file again, this time, heeding the court’s direction to file separate suits on the reliefs she is seeking.Â