EC breached its laws during filing of nominations – Egbert Faibille

The Editor of the Ghanaian Observer, Mr. Egbert Faibille Jnr, has revealed that the Electoral Commission (EC) would have to re-conduct the filing of nomination process as what was earlier done breaches its own constitution.

According to Mr. Faibille Jnr, the EC has breached C.I 75 which spells out how the commission should carry out the nomination process. He also said the law sets aside a day for the nomination to be carried out and not two as was done.

Mr. Faibille Jnr, who was speaking on an Accra based radio station, said: “This is a nation of laws and what the law provides and not a nation of an Electoral Commissioner and what he thinks, such that regrettably if indeed and as is the case this is the law, I am afraid that any citizen of the Republic, not even the NDP [National Democratic Party] or madam Akua Donkor or anybody can go to court and seek orders for the EC to comply with the provisions of C.I 75.’’

“It is about time the Electoral Commissioner and the Electoral Commission sat down to respect its own laws.”

He also said the rejection of Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings’ nomination forms does not mean the end of the road for the Rawlingses in Ghana politics and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

“Anybody who thinks that the temporary setback that the NDP under the leadership of Nana Konadu has suffered is the end of the Rawlingses and for that matter the NDP, is only tickling himself.”