“The National Peace Council has no authority over the EC, to direct the EC to do A or B. Yes, the NPC can advise the EC to ensure that there is credibility of our elections but as to how to go about it, as to how they should do it, we do not have that capacity to be able to take such directions.

“As citizens of this country, we are also concerned, the NPC is also concerned about the timing and is worried about the what might happen as a result of the court actions in respect of the disqualification of the number of candidates.

“But we are also minded that … we don’t have any capacity, any authority to direct the courts or to direct the EC as to how to go about their job,” he said on Accra-based Class FM.

His comments come on the back of calls by the Progressive People’s Party for the National Peace Council and other religious bodies to intervene the impasse between the party and the EC.

The EC Chair disqualified 13 candidates including Edward Mahama of the People’s National Convention and Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings of the National Democratic Party (NDP) over errors in the nomination forms they filed.

But an Accra High Court last week Friday ordered the EC to allow Dr Nduom of the PPP to amend the errors on his forms and resubmit them for consideration by the EC.

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The EC has since challenged the ruling at the Supreme Court. The Policy Advisor of the PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw has subsequently described the EC’s actions as “a deliberate scheme deployed by the state institutions, with the support of the referee, the Electoral Commission, to divert attention so that there will be opportunity for full rigging in the 2016 elections.”

But the EC Chair Charlotte Osei has stated that in spite of the many law suits, the EC is on course to organise a transparent and credible elections.