{"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

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NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo is one of four presidential aspirants to have been cleared for the 2016 polls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t just see anybody on the list and say that I need an endorsement, come and endorse it for me. Sometimes we take things for granted.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Amoah\u00a0also indicated that, the presidential aspirants may have had very little to with the preparation of nomination forms.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, for presidential candidates, they will not be carrying their forms everywhere. They will give it to us to do the work for them. You don\u2019t expect Nana Akufo-Addo to carry his forms across country. The party people, party officers would have to ensure that it is done. So if there is any lapse somewhere, it can create a problem for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Court action may be futile<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the threats of a legal action against the EC, O. B Amoah held the view that, the plaintiffs may hit a snag because the EC appears to have acted within the ambit of the law as it clearly spelled out the criteria for the candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some of the situations, I doubt even if the courts will be able to give them any remedy. If you don\u2019t qualify under the constitution, you don\u2019t qualify under the constitution…\u00a0So if you go and fill a form and the information you give shows that you don\u2019t qualify under the constitution, it will be very difficult for the courts to reverse what the EC has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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