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Mahama refuses CID invitation, Heads to court today

By Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah
Dr Edward Nasigrie Mahama
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Flagbearer of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Nasigrie Mahama will not honour an invitation from the police over alleged criminal endorsements the Electoral Commission (EC) found on his nomination forms.

The EC, on October 10, disqualified Dr Mahama and eleven others from contesting the 2016 presidential elections for because while some of the subscribers on his nomination forms endorsed other aspirants, others did not properly subscribe to the forms.

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Days after the disqualification the EC referred  the matter to the police for an investigation into what they deemed as fraud.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) subsequently asked the embattled aspirants, whom they say have breached Article 53 of the constitution, C.I. 94 of the election regulation, the Criminal Offences Act, among other laws, to report themselves by Friday, October 21, 2016, or get arrested. 

But speaking on Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen on Tuesday, General Secretary of the PNC, Atik Mohammed stated that Dr Mahama was not going report himself to the police because he had done nothing wrong.

According to him, "Dr. Edward Mahama will never appear before the police because he hasn't flouted any law".

"They can arrest him if they like", he added, saying that it is in their right to arrest him if they so wished.

On Dr Mahama's disqualification, he said the party was going to file a suit on Wednesday which would expose the EC for its unfair treatment of the PNC.

"We will request of the EC to show accepted forms of NDC, NPP to the court to prove its fairness", he said.

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