A Deputy Chairperson in charge of Corporate Affairs at the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) Dr Eric Bossman Asare has revealed that by the nature of the EC, it has many court cases that it answers to, disclosing that the EC goes to court at least once every month.
He noted that even though the EC is inundated with court cases, it takes them in its stride because it is within the right of aggrieved parties to seek redress in court.
Speaking on The Probe, a show on Joy News Sunday, October 25, 2020 on developments in the lead up to this year’s general elections, Dr Asare explained that the resort to legal processes is part of the set up of the electoral system even though the electoral commission treats all parties and individuals fairly.
“All the parties were given the chance [ to correct their mistakes in filing their nomination forms]. So as far as the Electoral Commission is concerned, we treated the parties and individual candidates very fairly. So that is why we strongly believe that some of the actions, some of the things they did border on criminality, so we are referring to the appropriate quarters.
And for people to say they are taking the EC to court, you know by the nature of our work, I think every month we go to court…I would say one month, one case…we understand; that’s how our system is set up. In case they is any misunderstanding, we don’t fight, we don’t argue , we use the legal processes,” he revealed.
The EC recently disqualified 5 presidential aspirants for allegedly forging the signature of voters. The disqualified aspirants have threatened to sue the EC over their disqualification.
