Peace Council must intervene in impasse between EC and political parties – Mike Ocquaye

14:07 - 01 November 2016

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The EC had earlier disqualified 13 presidential hopefuls over some anomalies on their nomination forms.

A former Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye has called on the Peace Council to intervene on the Electoral Commission’s disqualification of 13 presidential candidates ahead of the December polls.

He argued that the Peace Council cannot keep silent in the midst of all that is going on and expect to be good relationship between all.

Speaking on Accra-based Citi FM he said “I am a very prayerful man like many other Ghanaians but you cannot just presume the peace of God when he has given us a head. Let there be justice and then peace will prevail. I pray upon the Peace Council to come out and speak before they [Peace Council] later come out to say let there be peace.”

The EC filed a suit at the Supreme Court praying that an earlier ruling by an Accra High Court asking them to allow the Dr Nduom correct the mistakes on his nomination form be quashed.

Some of the disqualified parties have headed to court seeking the court to nullify the decision taken by the EC.

But Ocquaye believes that the Peace Council cannot watch ideal and do nothing in this matter. He argued that they should not wait the issues to get out of hand before acting.