The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced the inclusion of presidential candidates of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), National Democratic Party (NDP) and People's National Convention (PNC) after they were disqualified along with eight others last month.

Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and Dr Edward Mahama will now contest the December 7 election together with four other parties whose forms were passed by Commission last October. 

At a news conference in Accra Wednesday, EC boss, Charlotte Osei announced that the Commission has rejected the nominations of eight other presidential candidates for failing to abide by the C.I.94, the law governing the December polls.

The aspiring presidential candidates who have been disqualified include the United Front Party (UFP), Ward Brew and independent candidate, All People's Congress (APC) and Independent People's Party (IPP).

The others are candidates of the Great Consolidate Popular Party (GCPP), the United Development System Party (UDSP) and Kwame Asiedu Walker, an independent candidate.

Today's announcement ends a month's back and forth to the court between the electoral body and the disqualified candidates. 

Some of the aggrieved candidates had complained about unfair treatment by the EC and went ahead to sued the Commission at the High Court after it failed to compromise on its decision to disqualify them.

Dr Nduom demanded fives minutes of them EC to correct his mistakes but that was all he got and nothing more to get him on the ballot. He then sued the Commission at the Accra High Court. 

Mrs Rawlings and the others' request to be given the opportunity to correct their mistakes was unsuccessful so some of them also resorted to the court. 

The Accra High Court then ordered the EC to allow the PPP candidate to effect the corrections on his nomination form.

The Commission went to the apex court to seek clarity following the decision of the High Court Judge to quash the Commission’s disqualification of Dr Nduom.

It explained that Dr Nduom’s nomination form was rejected on the grounds that the number of subscribers of his forms did not meet the requirements of Regulation 7 (2) (b) of CI 94, the law governing the conduct of the 2016 elections.

It also argued that one of the economist's subscribers endorsed the form with different signatures in both portions of the nomination form, raising questions about the legitimacy of one or both signatures.

Giving its judgement, the Supreme Court ordered the EC to allow all 12 disqualified candidates to correct errors on their nomination forms, errors that formed the basis for their disqualification.

In a unanimous 6-0 decision read by presiding judge Justice Sophia Adinyira, the apex court ordered the EC to extend the nomination period for another 24 hours to allow all the disqualified candidates to correct their errors.

Starting from Monday and ending Tuesday, the EC invited the aggrieved aspirants and afford them the chance to make necessary corrections.

The judgement freezes all other five suits in which presidential candidates were challenging the disqualification. The candidates were disqualified after the EC said it found anomalies on the presidential nomination forms.