This follows the EC’s earlier disqualification of 13 presidential nominees out of the 17 aspirants who submitted their nomination forms to the EC.
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This led to a number of legal suits by some of the disqualified parties. After an Accra High Court ruled in favour of the Progressive People’s Party, the EC filed a suit at the Supreme Court to quash the ruling of the High Court. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the PPP.
But speaking at a programme dubbed “A Conversation on Leadership and the Future of Africa” at his residence yesterday [Wednesday], Kufuor “we needn’t have gone to court… if everybody had been mindful, including the Electoral Commission (EC), the Peace Council, government, perhaps the method of resolution should have been one of the alternative dispute resolutions.”
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He also added that the EC needs to keep in mind that it is not above the laws of the land and must therefore strive to act within the boundaries of the law.
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