Hassan Ayariga Now Says the Claim of Spending $6m On Campaign Was A "Slip of Tongue"–This Comes After the Economic and Organised Crime Office Wrote to Him Over Source of the Money

APC’s disqualified flagbearer-Hassan Ayariga recently claimed that he has spent about 6 million dollars on his campaign–insisting that it is unfair to be disqualified like that.
After his claim, the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) wrote to him to come and explain the source of this huge campaign fund–and now he says, he lied.
Rasak Poku, the APC’s General Secretary has reportedly said Ayariage meant to say 6 million cedis, and ended up saying 6 million dollars as a result of a slip of tongue. 

Mr. Poku told Accra FM that Ayariga’s comment was nothing but a mistake.

“It’s a slip of tongue, nobody is perfect, no matter what; you can have a slip of tongue but when you have that slip of tongue, a sensible person will tell you that it was just an error, it was a mistake and this is what I intended to say and that is what I’m telling you that it wasn’t in dollars because in Ghana we don’t [spend] dollars, we [spend] cedis,” he said.

He continued that “So, Dr. Hassan Ayariga as serious as he is, there is no way he will quote a foreign currency knowing very well in Ghana we don’t [spend] foreign currency but in Ghana we [spend] Cedis, so everything he said was in Cedis but because he has lived outside for a very long time, sometimes he mistakenly quotes their currencies, and because he also has businesses outside Ghana, sometimes he might mistakenly quote some of their currencies but he wanted to say Cedis.”