{"id":150935,"date":"2015-09-12T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=150935"},"modified":"2015-09-12T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T07:22:11","slug":"district-assembly-contender-threatens-to-sue-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=150935","title":{"rendered":"District Assembly contender threatens to sue EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A defeated assembly candidate during the district level elections in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region is threatening to sue the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bZwdf4HwcZAMYiGpqEAPJeIebOoiNBsu&#8221;]Bingana Azizi is protesting the results declared in the Mimima electoral area in the West Mamprusi district which caused his defeat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, the Electoral Commission ignored his petition on over voting recorded at Mimima electoral area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He insisted that the assembly election results declared in the Minima electoral area did to tally with that of the biometric verification machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe total ballot papers were 461 while those in the verification machine were 458.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He condemned the EC for ignoring his petition for which reason he is heading to court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe EC\u2019s inability to address election problems in the district level elections means Ghanaians should be worried about what is likely to happen in the 2016 general elections,\u201d Azizi warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifomonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A defeated assembly candidate during the district level elections in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region is threatening to sue the Electoral Commission. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bZwdf4HwcZAMYiGpqEAPJeIebOoiNBsu&#8221;]Bingana Azizi is protesting the results declared in the Mimima electoral area in the West Mamprusi district which caused his defeat. According to him, the Electoral Commission ignored his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-150935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}