Liberal Party standard bearer Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III Wednesday asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to order the National Printing Office (NPO) to desist from printing the name of disqualified Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) presidential candidate Vetallano Acosta in the official ballots and to reprint those with his (Aquino) name on the list.

Aquino, through his lawyer Sixto Brillantes, said the Comelec should order the removal of the name of Acosta in the ballot since he was already declared a nuisance candidate by the commission last March 4, 2010.

“By virtue of the en banc resolution declaring Acosta a nuisance candidate, there is no legal and valid reason for his name to appear in the official ballot being printed by the NPO,” read the motion that was filed last Tuesday.

‘That in order to give effect to the commission resolution declaring Acosta a non-candidate for being a nuisance, justice and fairness demands that his name should not be printed in the official ballots, otherwise, the Commission En Banc resolution declaring Acosta a nuisance candidate would turn out to be a useless and toothless verdict,” it further read.