EC boss plunging Ghana into a ditch – Prof Kwaku Asare

Stephen Kwaku Asare, a US-based Ghanaian lawyer has urged the court system to send a strong signal to the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission(EC) Charlotte Osei on her belligerent posture, saying her reckless attitude raises risk of chaos ahead of the elections.

His comment comes after the EC’s motion filed at the Supreme Court seeking a review on a ruling to reinstate presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP).

He stated that the number of court actions which the EC are being faced with are all completely unnecessary and a waste of time.

In his view, Prof. Asare believes “If we don’t stop her now and she brings this attitude on the day of counting after the polls, it will bring a lot of troubles,” adding that she needs to be advised to take the interest of the country at heart.

He continued: “Lets just imagine that there have been some over-voting in some polling stations and she gets up to strike out results of these centres arbitrarily, can you imagine what will happen in the country? …She is on the path of sending this country where it shouldn’t.”

The law professor stated that with 36 days to go for elections all the court actions must be made to fizzle out and rather concentrate on delivering incident free elections to Ghanaians come December 7.

EC runs to Supreme Court to overturn High court judgement

Electoral Commission on Monday [October 31], said it will appeal the High Court judgement that quashed Dr Nduom’s disqualification from the December 7 presidential polls.

A statement signed by the Head of Communications at the EC, Kofi Dzakpasu, said the commission has filed an application for review of the ruling at the Supreme Court to seek clarity on the matter.

The statement said its decision to disqualify the aspirant, is in the interest of public policy and credibility of the electoral process.

“In the interest of public policy and the credibility of the electoral process, the Commission has today [Monday, October 31, 2016] filed an application at the Supreme Court to quash the High Court decision and seek clarity on the relevant aspects of the law on candidate nominations,” the statement said.