Court moves hearing of PPP’s case against EC to October 25

11:31 - 20 October 2016

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) last week filed a suit at the High Court suing the EC over the decision to disqualify its presidential aspirant, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, from the 2016 presidential election.

An Accra High Court has granted an application by the Electoral Commission to abridge the time for the hearing of the injunction suit against the Commission from going ahead with the processes to conduct elections in December.

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The granting of the application means the case has been moved five days early from its original date, and it is expected to be heard on the 25th of October 2016.

In the suit where Dr Papa Kwesi Ndoum is an exparte applicant, the PPP is seeking “an order of prohibition to restrain the EC from proceeding with balloting for position of presidential candidates for the 7th December elections."

The plaintiff is also seeking “a further order directed against the first respondent in her capacity as Returning Officer for presidential elections to grant the applicant the opportunity to amend and alter the one anomaly found in his nomination papers as well as accept his nomination papers as amended or altered to enable him contest as a Presidential Candidate for the 7th December 2016 elections.”

“And for such order or further as to this Honourable Court may deem fit,” the PPP’s application stated.