The Electoral Commission (EC) has cleared 12 presidential candidates to challenge the December 7, 2020, political race.
This implies that 5 out of the 17 nominees who filed with the electoral body in the hopes of contesting in the polls have been disqualified.
The five include two independent presidential nominees; Kofi Koranteng and Marricke Kofi Gane, and three political party-sponsored nominees; Akwasi Addae Odike of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Kwasi Busumbru of the People’s Action Party (PAP), and Nana Agyenim Boateng of the United Front Party (UFP).
In light of this, out of the 12 presidential aspirants, 11 are sponsored by political parties with only one out of the three who filed nominations as independent aspirants making it onto the ballot.
Speaking at the Electoral Commissions Headquarters in Accra, Mrs Jean Meansa, the Chairperson of the EC who announced the list of qualified candidates said the electoral body had extensively examined the nomination forms of the aspirants to guarantee that every candidate fulfilled all the necessities outlined by law to qualify as a candidate.
The qualified candidates are President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former President John Mahama, Mr Ivor Greenstreet, Mr Kofi Percival Akpaloo, Ms Brigitte Dzogbenuku and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
The rest were Madam Akua Donkor, Mr Christian Kwabena Andrews, Mr Asiedu Walker, Mr Hassan Ayariga, Mr David Apasera and Mr Henry Herbert Lartey.
The disqualified candidates have been promised a refund of their GH¢100,000 filing fees.
