Sentences with phrase «presidential nomination forms»

Four political parties have so far picked up presidential nomination forms in a bid to unseat incumbent President John Mahama in the December 7 general elections.

In an interview with Citi News» Umaru Sanda Amadu, Mr. Amoah, also the MP for Akuapem South, said the onus was on the parties to have simply done due diligence on the persons who endorsed their presidential nomination forms because all of them had access to the voter's register to do the necessary checks.

Background: The NDC in September 2015 sanctioned Mr. Mokono for selling presidential nomination forms to one, George Boateng who was seeking to challenge President Mahama for the flagbearersip slot.

E.C officials claimed Mrs Rawlings» presidential nomination forms were rejected because they were incomplete.

The former First lady who's Presidential candidate for the NDP picked her Presidential nomination forms on Wednesday in readiness for the crucial polls which is less than three months away.

Speaking to ClassFMonline.com shortly after she submitted her presidential nomination forms to the Electoral Commission on Thursday, 29 September, the farmer - turned - politician said «it is not true that I have chosen my husband as my running mate.

The Electoral Commission on Wednesday approved of the party's resubmitted presidential nomination forms after reviewing it.

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

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Mr. Amoah also indicated that, the presidential aspirants may have had very little to with the preparation of nomination forms.

The EC, disqualified 13 presidential candidates, explaining that their nomination forms were not properly filled, and also they had failed to meet the criteria set out in the CI 94.

An Accra High Court on Friday ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to allow the Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom to correct mistakes on his nomination forms.

Correction Of Mistakes On Nomination Forms Of Disqualified Presidential Aspirants Ends @ 5 PM Today

The Convention People's Party (CPP) has kicked against the GHc 50,000 Presidential nominees are expected to pay as filing fees for their nomination forms to contest in 2016 elections in December.

All thirteen presidential aspirants were disqualified over their inability to appropriately complete their nomination forms.

The Electoral Commission has announced new errors on the nomination form of the flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, and other disqualified presidential hopefuls in the 2016 elections.

In the company of her running mate, Mrs Patricia Asante, the presidential nominee arrived at the EC office early morning to get her nomination forms that were fraught with irregularities and errors, to amend for submission by 5:00 pm today.

Disqualified presidential nominee for the Ghana Freedom Party, Madam Akua Donkor, has showed up at the headquarters of the Electoral Commission to pick up her nomination forms for corrections.

She joined eight other presidential hopefuls on Thursday to submit her nomination forms.

CPP opens nominations; Presidential hopefuls to pay GHc155, 000 Speaking to Citi News after filing her forms, Samia Nkrumah reiterated the party's commitment to breaking through the dominance of NPP and the NDC, saying the two have failed the country woefully.

He said persons who wrongly endorsed the nomination forms for the presidential candidates acted ignorantly.

At a press conference in Accra on Friday, the Policy Advisor of the PPP, Mr Kofi Asamoah said the NPP's presidential candidate failed to attach the receipts of his statutory declaration to the nomination forms.

Meanwhile, the disqualified Presidential candidate of APC, Hassan Ayariga has blamed the National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, for the errors committed on the nomination forms of disqualified applicants.

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The All People's Congress» (APC) aspirant, together with 12 other presidential aspirants, were disqualified from contesting in this year's presidential elections by the Electoral Commission for failing to meet the electoral requirement of filling their nomination forms.

He said the provision imposes a duty on the returning officer to inform presidential candidates of any anomalies on their nomination forms and also afford them the opportunity to make the necessary corrections.

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei should have resigned over the errors made by some presidential aspirants in filing their nomination forms, a former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has said.

«It is demonstrable failure and an indictment on the competence of the Commissioner that only 4 of her class of 17 political parties and independent aspiring presidential candidates were able to understand and complete the nomination forms without error and to submit them at her own appointed time of 29th and 30th September 2016,» Amidu's statement said.

This follows a Supreme Court judgment ordering the EC to allow the 13 disqualified presidential aspirants, to correct the errors on their nomination forms, by extending the nomination period.

Mr. Kyeremanten announced this when he picked up his nomination forms to contest Nana Akufo - Addo and five others in the NPP presidential primaries in December.

Dr. Nduom was disqualified along with 12 other presidential aspirants after anomalies were cited in his filed nomination forms.

Prudence and common sense therefore requires the Commissioner on the strength of the decision of Ex Parte Papa Kwesi Nduom to see her way clearly to give each of the aspiring presidential candidates the opportunity to alter or amend his nomination forms in accordance with regulation 9 (2) of C.I. 94 to enable the processes to the election to proceed without any further delay instead of waiting for each aspiring candidate to secure a separate ruling from the Court.

It is amazing that the Commissioner failed or refused to realize that her impunity in not complying with the Constitution and the law in disqualifying the aspiring candidates disclosed more about her failure as the head of the Electoral Commission than the ignorance or lack of attention on the part of the aspirants in filling the complex nomination forms designed by her office for the Presidential Elections.

The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), has described the Electoral Commission's (EC) detection of new errors on the nomination forms of the previously disqualified presidential aspirants for the December polls as deeply troubling.

The PNC supporters came to the launching ground not clear in their minds about the fate of their presidential candidate, Dr. Edward Mahama, who was disqualified alongside 12 other flagbearers by the Electoral Commission (EC) due to some faults in their nomination forms.

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has called for the resignation of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei, over the errors made by some presidential aspirants in filing their nomination forms.

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), says it has detected 33 new errors on the nomination forms of the National Democratic Party (NDP) presidential nominee, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings.

According to the commission, campaigns for presidential and National Assembly elections should begin by November 18 while the last day for the submission of nomination forms by political parties for the elections is December 3.

A former accountant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who was sacked for selling nomination forms to a presidential aspirant has sued the party.

Dr Hassan Ayariga said the ground that he did not properly fill his nomination form as cited by the EC is baseless considering he went through the same process before contesting the 2012 presidential election on the ticket of the People's National Convention (PNC).

President John Dramani Mahama has filed his nomination forms with the Electoral Commission (EC) to contest as presidential candidate in the 2016 elections.

At a news conference in Accra, EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei says per the criteria, presidential candidates are expected to get 432 registered voters to endorse their nomination forms, and this must include two voters from every administrative district across the country.

Following the Electoral Commission's (EC) detection of 33 new errors on the nomination forms of the National Democratic Party (NDP) presidential aspirant, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, the NDP has accused the EC of victimising it.

On Friday, High Court Judge, Eric Kyei Baffour «quashed» a decision by the Electoral Commission in which it rejected the presidential nomination papers of Dr. Nduom and ordered the Commission to restore the rights given the presidential aspirant by law to amend and alter the nomination forms.

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has accused Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) of unfairly introducing new guidelines on the re-submission of nomination forms by disqualified presidential aspirants.

A former presidential candidate of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) Dr. Edward Mahama has picked - up nomination forms in a bid to lead the party in the 2016 general elections.

The EC last week accepted the nomination forms from presidential and parliamentary nominees, hoping to contest in this year's elections, but failed to accept the filing fees over the PPP's suit.

In 2012, she was disqualified by the Electoral Commission from contesting in the presidential elections over her inability to appropriately fill her nomination forms.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina state says it will purchase the party's expression of interest and nomination forms for presidential election in 2015 for...

The Supreme Court in its judgment on Monday November 7, 2016, extended the deadline for submission of nomination forms allowing the 12 disqualified presidential nominees to amend their forms.