Nana Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, is number five on the presidential ballot paper after the Electoral Commission yesterday conducted a balloting session at its headquarters in Accra.
The exercise came off after the Commission had cleared three other presidential hopefuls to contest the December 7 polls.
The three are Papa Kwesi Nduom of the Progressive Peoples Party, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, National Democratic Party, and Edward Nasigre of the People’s National Convention.
The EC cleared the three following a Supreme Court decision ordering it to give the three aspirants and nine others the opportunity to rectify errors identified on their nomination forms, which led to their earlier disqualification.
The other presidential hopefuls who could still not make it onto the ballot paper for failure to meet the number of subscribers required by law were Hassan Ayariga of the All People’s Party, Henry Lartey of the Great Consolidated People’s Party and Akua Donkor of the Ghana Freedom Party.
The rest included Kofi Akpaloo of the Independent People’s Party, Agyenim Boateng of the United Front Party and Kwame Asiedu Walker, an independent candidate.
This latest development now brings to seven the number of presidential candidates who would be contesting in the December 7 elections.
They are Ivor Kobina Greenstreet of the CPP (1st on the ballot); Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings of the NDP (2nd on the ballot); John Dramani Mahama of the NDC (3rd on the ballot); Papa Kwesi Nduom of the PPP (4th on the ballot); Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the NPP (5th on the ballot); Edward Mahama of the PNC (6th on the ballot); and Jacob Osei Yeboah, an the Independent Candidate, who is last on the ballot.
The EC disqualified 13 of the 17 presidential candidates who had filed their nominations to contest the December 7 presidential election for various anomalies on their nomination forms.
Some of the disqualified candidates took legal action against the Commission, asking to be reinstated.
Subsequently, the PPP and the APC won their cases at the High Court, a development that required the EC to offer them the chance to correct the anomalies on their nomination papers.
The EC, however, went to the Supreme Court to seek a reversal of the High Court ruling, but the Court affirmed the earlier ruling of the High Court and ordered the EC to allow the parties to correct their mistakes.