The National Democratic Party (NDP) has threatened to drag the Electoral Commission (EC) to court if it did not rescind its decision to disqualify their flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and her running-mate, Kodjo Mensah Sosuh from participating in the December 7 presidential elections.
The EC on at press conference on Monday announced the disqualification of the NDP and eleven other parties including, APC, PPP, PNC and GCPP citing various anomalies on the nomination forms of their candidates as the reason.
The decision has not gone down well with the parties and many of them have threatened court actions.
In a letter we chanced upon, lawyers of the NDP stated that though, regulation 9 of the Public Elections Regulations, 2016 (CI94) provides that when the particulars of person subscribing to nomination form is not up to the standard required by law, the affected candidate should be given an opportunity to make amendments and any alterations necessary, the EC  did not give any such opportunity to their clients and also failed to communicate the decision to disqualify our clients as stipulated by the law.
According to them, considering this and other failings of the EC, their clients were "convinced that you have not obeyed those rules, and be may truly be said to have acted illegally and unreasonably".
"It is in the light of these that we write, first to demand the information that our clients  are entitled to under the Constitution and by law. Our clients also demand that you rescind your purpoted disqualification, and then instate the names of the party's presidential candidate and her running-mate on the list of candidates for the 2016 Presidential Elections", the letter said.
Please note that if these demands are not met forthwith and in any event within twenty-fours (24) of this letter, we have our clients' further instructions to institute legal proceedings against you to compel you to meet the aforesaid demands without further notice or recourse for you", it concluded.