{"id":257150,"date":"2016-10-11T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257150"},"modified":"2016-10-11T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:55:06","slug":"disqualified-aspirants-have-themselves-to-blame-ob-amoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/disqualified-aspirants-have-themselves-to-blame-ob-amoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqualified aspirants have themselves to blame – OB Amoah"},"content":{"rendered":"
A member of the opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Electoral Committee, O.B. Amoah, has blamed the disqualified presidential aspirants and their parties for their respective disqualifications from the December 7 presidential race.<\/p>\n
All the disqualified aspirants failed to meet the necessary requirements in filling their forms; and a number of them\u00a0had inconsistencies in the endorsement of their forms by\u00a0subscribers, with the Electoral Commission (EC) citing forgery and fraud in some of the endorsements.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”6uHl2YvwHWIDBhbUSHg7XxZYIc4zivsC”]Among the disqualified aspirants were\u00a0Hassan Ayariga of the All People’s\u00a0Congress (APC), the People\u2019s National Convention’s (PNC) Dr. Edward Mahama, the Progressive People\u2019s Party’s (PPP) Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, and 10 others.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Umaru Sanda Amadu, Mr. Amoah, also the MP for Akuapem South, said the onus was on the parties to\u00a0have simply done due diligence on the persons who endorsed their presidential nomination forms because\u00a0all of them had access to the voter\u2019s register to do the necessary checks.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery party by law is required to have access to the register,\u201d he noted, but\u00a0the caveat here is that the parties had to apply to get the register to make their checks like the NPP did.<\/p>\n In the NPP\u2019s case in the Eastern Region, Mr. Amoah recounted that \u00a0\u201cwe all assembled at one place, two per district, and then you produce your voter’s ID card, and there is somebody behind the computer who is cross checking to make sure that the voter ID card is what is on the EC the list.\u201d<\/p>\n