{"id":199133,"date":"2016-03-15T15:55:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=199133"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:55:37","slug":"199133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/199133\/","title":{"rendered":"Appoint independent auditor for Nov. polls – PPP\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is calling for the appointment\u00a0of an independent auditor to scrutinize the\u00a0November polls.<\/p>\n
According to the PPP, the auditor\u2019s main duty will be to examine results of the presidential election before they are declared by the Electoral Commission (EC).<\/p>\n
The PPP believes this would resolve the challenges encountered in the 2012 election which led to the results being challenged by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in court.<\/p>\n
The NPP\u00a0challenged the results of the 2012 elections at the Supreme Court alleging the election was\u00a0rigged to favour John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Director of Policy of PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw, explained that the only effective way to ensure that the results of the 2016 polls are credible and\u00a0 prevent some irregularities that characterized the 2012 election, is to introduce the auditing process.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Electoral Commission, if going ahead with this exercise, it cannot be complete without an audit component and we will dispute the results because of the probability\u00a0of possible manipulation of the election results. The EC wants transparent elections and it wants to publish and declare results that are of high integrity so introducing the auditing process is even going to help the Electoral Commission anyway\u2026\u201dhe explained.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is calling for the appointment\u00a0of an independent auditor to scrutinize the\u00a0November polls. According to the PPP, the auditor\u2019s main duty will be to examine results of the presidential election before they are declared by the Electoral Commission (EC). The PPP believes this would resolve the challenges encountered in the 2012 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2647,2648,58,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n