The Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) was disqualified from the 2016 presidential elections because the party was unable to raise the required number of subscribers to support Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom’s nomination.
The details are that one subscriber Mr Richard Aseda with voter ID number 7812003957 endorsed Dr Nduom’s forms in the Central region and again endorsed the same form with the same ID number in the Volta region.
The at a press conference on Monday explained that the subscriber was found to be legitimately on the register in the Volta region and therefore disqualifies him from being able to subscribe in the Central region as well.
This therefore reduced the total number of subscribers for Dr Nduom as required by law.
The same subscriber Mr Richard Aseda, according to the EC also endorsed the form with different signatures and therefore raised questions of legitimacy of the signatures.
The EC chair, Mrs Charlotte Osei explained that the matter would be referred on grounds of possible forgery of signatures to the Ghana Police Service and Attorney General for investigations and prosecution in line with the Criminal Offences Act.
By: Graphic Online –
