The Electoral Commission Chair, Mrs Charlotte Osei, has announced the candidates for the 2016 Presidential polls at a press conference held in Accra Monday.
The flagbearers of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor and the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, head a tall list of candidates disqualified from contesting the polls.
Of the 17 candidates who submitted nomination forms to contest the polls, only the NDC’s John Dramani Mahama, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo of the NPP, the CPP flagbeareer Ivor Greenstreet and Independent candidate Osei Yeboah – satisfied all the criteria and were greenlighted by the EC for the polls.
The EC disqualifed the parties and their candidates for a variety of reasons based on legal and ethical grounds.
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