Presidential Candidate of the People's National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama has called for the postponement of the December 7 polls because going ahead will be unfair to himself and the others who were disqualified from contesting but reinstated later.
Dr Mahama and twelve others including the Progressive People's Party's (PPP) Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom and the National Democratic Party's (NDP) Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings were on October 10, disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC) for various errors on their nomination forms which the EC stated breached some electoral laws.
Dr Nduom took the matter to court and won with the Accra High Court ruling that his disqualification was against the rules of natural justice because he had not been offered any opportunity to effect corrections on his form.
The win for Dr Nduom emboldened other disqualified aspirants and the EC, which suddenly had a plethora of suits in the High Court to defend, filed a suit at the Supreme Court for interpretation in order to bring finality to the disputes on disqualifications.
The Supreme Court on November 7 upheld the High Court's ruling on Dr Nduom's case and further ordered the EC to extend the nomination period by 24 hours to allow all disqualified aspirants time to make alterations on their forms.
After the close of the 24 hour grace period, Dr Mahama, Dr Nduom and Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings were the only aspirants who were deemed by the EC to have been able to correct the errors on their forms and were duly reinstated.
This situation, Dr Mahama argues, puts the disqualified candidates who were reinstated at a disadvantage ahead of the polls, hence his call for a postponement.
"We've been denied six weeks of active campaigning because we were fighting in court so the election  must be postponed so it will be fair if the election is postponed so that we the reinstated candidates have time to campaign too", he explained in an interview on Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen on Thursday.
According to him, apart from the campaign time, the bloated nature of the voters register also brings into question the integrity of the election.
"The 2016 voter register is fraudulent and bloated. It will not make the process fair and since about "54% of Ghanaians are expecting violence in this year's election. It's good the election is postponed", he stated.
Dr Mahama's call for a postponement was supported by the PPP's Policy Advisor, Kofi Siaw Asamoah who said the EC has not been fair in the application of the electoral laws.Â
 "If we want a free and fair election, there should be a postponement and new voter register", explaining that the "16 million names on the voter register makes it susceptible to rigging and padding"
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