Court dismisses Konadu’s case against EC

An Accra High court has dismissed the case in which the National Democratic Party is seeking to get the election management body to reinstate its flag bearer Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings in the December 7 presidential election.
In his ruling, Justice George K. Koomson said the decision was due to a wrong procedure used by Nana Konadu hence making it the case “incompetent.”
He said the applicants were wrong in including an application for judicial review and the enforcement of fundamental human rights in one writ.
Background
The NDP applied for an interlocutory injunction to be placed on all processes in connection with the elections, which would require their participation.
Nana Konadu and her NDP were also praying the court to declare as illegal the deadline the EC set for receiving nominations and “a further declaration that the EC erred in law when it decided not to accept the applicants nomination thereby wrongfully and illegal disqualifying the applicants from contesting in the 2016 presidential elections.”
They are also seeking an order quashing the EC’s decision not to accept Konadu’s nominations and an order compelling the EC to accept her nomination and to include her name on the ballot for the 2016 presidential election.
Nana Konadu was disqualified with 12 other presidential nominees because they failed to meet the necessary requirements of the electoral laws.
In explaining the NDP’s disqualification, the EC Chair said: “The Commission is unable to accept Mrs. Rawlings’ nomination because the number of subscribers to her forms did not meet the requirements of Regulation 7 (2) (b) of CI 94. One subscriber on page 89 of her nomination forms is not a validly registered voter, and illegally registered twice and so is on the Exclusion list of multiple voters. Details are Salifu Abdulai District: Nanumba South, Voter ID no: 6617004814 (2