The disqualified presidential nominee of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Herbert Lartey, says he was disqualified because of a "draconian policy."

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Speaking on Citi FM's "Point Blank" Friday, Dr Lartey said: “The draconian policy has been put in place which we need to remove because it takes people off the ballot box. This was done when the PNDC was in power.

"It was a military government that wanted to see Rawlings stay in power for a long time and they had to use that to protect him. It is a shame that framers of the constitution didn’t really look through it.”

He added: "This is a system that actually takes people off the ballot box after you have done all your constituency elections, you have done the regional elections, 10 of it and then you have done your national congress with over 3,000 people coming to witness as delegates and make it worth and you are asked to pay 50,000 and then you taken off the ballot. It is a banana republic that does that."

Dr Lartey failed to make the cut after a window of opportunity was given to him and 11 other disqualified candidates to correct the errors o their nomination forms that led to their first disqualification.

In all, seven presidential nominees have been cleared by the commission to contest in the December vote.

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The are Ivor Kobina Greenstreet of the CPP, former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, NDP, President John Mahama of the NDC, Dr Papa Kwesi Ndoum of the PPP, Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP, Edward Mahama of the PNC and Independent candidate Jacob Osei Yeboah.