Flagbearer of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom is to be reinstated as a candidate for 2016 presidential elections.
This follows a ruling by an Accra High Court that the Electoral Commission (EC) breached the laws of natural justice by not affording Dr Nduom an opportunity to correct mistakes on his nomination forms.
The EC earlier this month, disqualified Dr Nduom and eleven others from contesting the upcoming elections citing various anomalies on their nomination forms which they said breached CI 94, the constitutional instrument guiding the conduct of elections in Ghana.
Dr Nduom, after efforts to get the EC rescind its decision, sued praying the court to “order directed against the 1st Respondent [Charlotte Osei] in her capacity as Returning Officer for Presidential elections to grant the Applicant the opportunity to amend and alter the one anomaly found in his nomination papers as well as accept his nomination papers as amended or altered to enable him contest as a Presidential Candidate for the 7th December 2016 elections.â€
Delivering judgment, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, stated that the lack of opportunity afforded Dr. Ndoum for the correction of mistakes also breached CI 94.