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EC was wrong in disqualifying Nduom - Ayikoi Otoo

Dr Nduom is one of 13 presidential aspirants who was disqualified in the presidential race due to some anomalies on his forms.

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“The EC issue of breached its own rules which had imposed a duty on them to give candidates an opportunity to make amendments and alterations. The issue of breach of the rules of natural justice is so fundamental that everyone should be given a hearing before being condemned. Even under common law, you can always go to court and say that ‘I have been dismissed from work and they never gave me an opportunity to be heard,” Ayikoi Otoo who is the lawyer for Dr. Ndoum told journalists in Accra.

On reasons why the PPP’s Papa Kwesi Nduom was disqualified, the EC Chair said: “the Commission is unable to accept Dr Nduom’s nomination because again the number of subscribers in his forms did not make the requirements of regulation 7(2) of CI 94.”

“The details are as follows, one subscriber, Mr Richard Aseda, with voter ID number 7812003957 endorsed Dr Nduom’s forms in the Central region and again endorsed the same forms with the same ID number in the Volta region.

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She said: “the same subscriber, Mr Richard Aseda endorsed the form with different signatures in both portions of the nomination forms. This again raises questions as to the legitimacy of one or both signatures.”

But Ayikoi Otoo argues that the “law itself imposes a duty on the EC to grant candidates who might have difficulties with the nomination forms to correct them so if you fail to do that then it means… you have not worked in accordance with the law that set you up.”

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