{"id":265117,"date":"2016-11-04T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265117"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:14:46","slug":"my-victory-shows-ghanas-democracy-is-working-hassan-ayariga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/my-victory-shows-ghanas-democracy-is-working-hassan-ayariga\/","title":{"rendered":"My victory shows Ghana’s democracy is working \u2013 Hassan Ayariga"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flagbearer of the All People\u2019s Party (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has welcomed a High Court order to the Electoral Commission to allow him correct errors<\/strong><\/a><\/span> on his nomination forms describing the judgment as proof that the nation’s democracy is working.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ayariga was disqualified from the 2016 presidential contest because some of his subscribers also endorsed other candidates in the race; but an Accra High Court on Friday directed the EC to give him the chance to amend his forms.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”7sXBt8uVDuBsWSANdAr4eKpoMiKm2f86″]Speaking to the media after the judgment, Mr. Ayariga was grateful for the victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cGhanaians today have witnessed a very successful event which demonstrates to the whole world that our laws are working. No matter who you are, when you have any issue, you can always go to court for redress. I am very proud that democracy is really working in this country. I am very proud that rule of law in Ghana is working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Ayariga said he and his team really prayed to God for a favourable judgment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank the Almighty God. Today we must all believe in God. We have prayed and prayed that the court will give us justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen asked when he would visit the EC to have his form amended, Mr. Ayariga said \u201cwe have given the EC the corrected form but they rejected it. \u00a0We did the correction immediately they told us that we were disqualified; we gave them two subscribers to substitute the two so we don’t have to go to the Electoral Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawyers for the APC had earlier in court accused the EC of deliberately disqualifying<\/strong><\/a><\/span> Hassan Ayariga.<\/p>\n

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Hassan Ayariga had earlier blamed the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) for his disqualification from the 2016 presidential.<\/p>\n

Ayariga said the NCCE<\/strong><\/a><\/span> failed in its duties to educate electorates well enough hence the mistakes on the nomination form.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the doubt that whatever the EC said was true, I am coming from the PNC and there are members of the PNC that have moved from the PNC to ignorantly do those common mistakes. It is the duty of the NCCE to have educated the people on how to subscribe so for us; that fault does not lie on political parties but the NCCE, which Charlotte Osei was the former boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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