Private Legal and Conflict Resolution Consultant, Martin Amidu has said that the Electoral Commissioner is using technical grounds to render nugatory the decision and orders of the Supreme Court, where the Court ordered that “in appropriate cases to afford candidates the opportunity to comply with regulation ((2) of the Public Election Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 94)”.
According to him Madam Charlotte Osei is taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s ruling to wager on the fact that she is entitled by the Court’s ruling within the new nomination period to put forth alleged new and profound errors that will make it impossible for even Nduom and those others who have judgments in their favour, to alter or amend the specific errors for which they obtained their respective judgments in the High Court.
Read Below full Statement from Martin Amidu:
The determination of the Electoral Commissioner as the Returning Officer for the Presidential
Elections to still rig the elections by disqualifying all the 13 disqualified candidates in spite of
the Supreme Court’s ruling of yesterday, 7th November 2016, must be obvious to all reasonable
people in the new grounds of discovered defects in their nomination forms the Commissioner
submitted to each of the candidates after the Court’s decision and orders were made.
The defects in Nduom’s nomination forms, according to press reports, have now moved from one (1) to one hundred and five (105). This is in spite of the fact that the case of Ex Parte Papa Kwesi Nduom in the High Court for which the Commissioner went to the Supreme Court was decided upon the one defect conveyed to Nduom in writing by the Commissioner dated 10th October 2016 which was an exhibit in the case.
The change in the number of defects allegedly now detected by the Commissioner after her
letters of 10th October 2016 to each of the candidates shows that she is using the Supreme Court
ruling to change the goal post in her determination to disqualify all the 13 candidates and permit
the rigging of the 2016 Presidential Elections.
I take the view that she is again taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s ruling to wager on the fact that she is entitled by the Court’s ruling within the new nomination period to put forth alleged new and profound errors that will make it impossible for even Nduom and those others who have judgments in their favour to alter or amend the specific errors for which they obtained their respective judgments in the High Court.
I am of the view that she cannot do that, based upon the Supreme Court’s ruling even though the
Court quashed the order of the High Court directing the Commissioner to allow Papa Kwesi
Nduom permission to make alterations and amendments necessary to correct the double
subscription to his nomination paper.
This is because Nduom’s action in the High Court was for a hearing specifically to correct the double subscription to his nomination paper and not new ones. That is the hearing the Supreme Court ordered for Nduom and all the other candidates who received letters pinpointing their errors on or around 10th October 2016.
The Commissioner appears to be relying upon a tricky part of the Supreme Court ruling in
which, after quashing the order of the High Court permitting Nduom to make alterations and
amendments necessary to correct the double subscription to his nomination paper, the Court also
ordered that “in appropriate cases to afford candidates the opportunity to comply with regulation
((2) of the Public Election Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 94)”.
I do not think the Court intended to go beyond the subsisting judgments in favour of some of the applicants and those without judgments to allow the Commissioner to change the goal posts anew.
Nduom and the others may rush to the Supreme Court again for interpretation of its decision of
yesterday. My worry is that the Commissioner is still deliberately determined to rig the elections
by disqualifying the 13 candidates and is wagering on the fact that before the Court interprets its
decision there would be no further time left before the close of today 8th November 2016.
I wait to see whether or not the candidates have sufficient time to apply to the Supreme Court today for interpretation and whether or not there would be enough time to consider them before the close of day.
I fear the Commissioner is determined to render nugatory the decision and orders of the Supreme
Court on technical grounds.
Let us wait for how the Supreme Court will rise to the occasion of this new twist to its ruling should any applications be made to it today.
In the meantime patrioticcitizens should continue defending the Constitution by vigilantly watching the rigging conduct of the Commissioner in this election year.
Source: Martin A, B. K. Amidu
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The EC boss might be an agent of Satan sent to cause mayhem during the elections.
The EC came with an agenda; to hand victory to Mahamah at all cost. This agenda might bring Ghana to a point of many unnecessary conflicts. She knows Nduom will pull votes away from Mahamah in the Central Region to hand Nana the victory. She's doing everything to block the candidacy of Nduom. Nduom was disqualified on one issue, he went to court, the ruled in his favour to compel EC to allow him to make correction to the one error. But now this wicked woman with an agenda to hand the 2016 election to Mahamah has moved the goal post and try to change the rules of the game. This will spell doom for Ghana and she must be stopped by our highest court and tell her to stop her diabolic intentions period. She can't subvert the will of the people period.
The Electoral Commissioner's posture in this year's general election process is Draconian and Abysmal. The is the need for a rethink. i trust the wisdom of the Supreme Court. I hope we don't get to the stage where we must "APPEAL TO HEAVENS".
Mr. Amidu, move on! We are with you.
You are the one that need syc0 treatment asp. your incompetent John Mahama with the help of the EC want to rig this election again then you will met your meter this time round . We are tired of NDC power drunk, 1nsensitive, th!eves OHN MAHAMA MUSTLOOSES HIS JOB AT ALL COST 7th DEC. THIS TIME AROUND.
So where is the Peace Council? I keep asking. They are waiting when things begin to get out hands they they start shouting peace peace. What kind of hypocrisy is this that the Peace Council is exhibiting? if they continue this way it will get to a time when they start calling for peace no one will take them serious in this country
This Martin Amidu guy need psychiatrist attention. something definitely wrong with him mentally. Because the only language he speaks and understand now is rigging.
Can't you also shut your backside wind pipe up because this what we call DEOMOCRACY ; Martin-Amidu is expressing an opinion just like but the only trouble is that you do not seem to like his thoughts ; Martin -Amidu has never being a frined to the NPP ; the man is very principle in life and have risked his life to confront a murderer like Jon Mahama in the woyome case ; nobody in Ghana is as patriotic and honest as Martin-Amidu and Ghana shall never get any body near Martin-Amidu ; if anything we should pray for the man because if we lose him Ghana is DOOOMED !!!!!!!!!!besides everybody can see the game plan of the EC -Mrs Osei ; she seems to have been bought by Jon Mahama to rig the elections for Jon Mahama to win again ; how do you detect a mistake and then when taken to court you turn round and say ; OH yes ; I have now discovered more mistakes which you should amend in the time frame by the court ; why did not the EC do due diligence in the first place by pointing out the whole mistakes to satisfy the supreme court before the orders were given ; it a serous planned initiative to bungle the who le time left for the election ; to me the EC is running on a tight rope and it may blow in her face ; as Nana Addo has said there will be no court but if the elections are rigged again he will order his NP men on the streets ; THIS TIME IT IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY !!!!!!!!FOR THE NDC AND THIS CAN SPILL WITHIN THE ARMY ; REMEMBER IVORY COAST !!!!!!!; IF JON MAHAMA REFUSES TO GO AND WAR BREAKS OUT AND HIS CRONIES WILL BE JAILED !!!!!!THIS IS REAL !!!!!!
THIS MAN SIMPLY HAS A HATRED FOR JOHN MAHAMA AND THE NDC. HE SHOULD IGNORED. CHEAP POPULARITY. YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING THIS FOR NPP TO COME TO POWER, WELL DONE, CONTINUE YOU WILL SEE WHAT THEY WILL DO TO YOU!!
Martin Amidu can never be ***barred word*** of Mahama. A man who walked of a ministerial appointment on grounds of principke to save mother Ghana 51 million deserves respect. NDC people talking trash against him on this forum are forking modaforkers who deserve bullets in their smelly empty heads. Who in Ghana will sacrifice the way Martin has? ***barred word*** and unpatriotic Ndc.