The disqualified flagbearer of the All People’s Congress, Hassan Ayariga, has revealed the extent of his riches and why he believes he’s the best man to lead Ghana.
Hassan Ayariga was apoplectic when he was disqualified from contesting in the 2016 polls by the Electoral Commission, after his filing form was riddled with administrative errors.
Dancehall act Samini has posted a reassuring message of peace meant for all Ghanaians to help bring about the elections that we want and feel we deserve.
The singer took to social media Tuesday morning, in the midst of all the hula baloo surrounding the disqualification of some candidates from contesting the elections, and made his feelings on the matter known.
Tight security have been installed at the offices of the Electoral Commission as disgruntled Presidential aspirants and their supporters besiege the premises to register their displeasure.
The Commission on Monday disqualified as many as twelve candidates from contesting December’s Presidential polls, including many big names such as Dr Nduom and Hassan Ayariga, and it has led to a lot of pissed off parties with a bone to pick with the EC.
The Minority leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, thinks Ghanaians are so dumb that the sheer number of political parties was confusing.
And luckily Ghnaian’s do very little to prove he’s not right.
APC flagbearer Hassan Ayariga remains livid at the Electoral Commission for disqualifying from the 2016 Presidential election race, leveling all sorts of insults against the body and its chairperson.
Hassan was one of numerous candidates who were disqualified by the EC Monday, citing irregularities within their filing documents.
The bombshell dropped by the EC chair Charlotte Osei Monday is still reverberating throughout the nation as major candidates start strategising on how to get back into the race.
The flagbearers of the PPP, GFP and NDP were just three of thirteen major Presidential candidates disqualified from contesting December’s polls by the EC boss, citing several procedural errors in their filing documents.
The Volta Region is the surest region for the NDC since time immemorial, but it looks like they would surely lose some votes out of there this election cycle.
The youth of Adaklu have issued a statement in which they state that despite voting for the NDC consistently since 1992, the region has been neglected every time the party has come to power.
NPP flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo was at the premises of the Electoral Commission earlier today (Thursday) to submit his nomination for President in the 2016 general elections.
The 72 year old submitted his forms plus the mandatory Ghc 50,000 – but the Commission rejected the fee as it’s an issue currently being adjudicated in court.
Akua Donkor’s romance with the NDC is well known, as she is generally seen as being a surrogate of the party. She’s known to attack the NPP whilst praising the NDC and sometimes even gets to travel on state trips.
Despite all these, that she’ll have the brazenness to use an NDC song as her personal ringtone is not something that one could comprehend her doing.
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it will start accepting applications for transfer of votes from one constituency to another ahead of the December 7 polls.
A statement signed by Eric Kofi Dzakpasu, Head of Communications, said the process will begin on 9th September 2016 and end on Friday, 7th October 2016.
The President has joined the teeming mass of Ghanaians who are checking to ensure they aren’t part of those cleansed from the register due to using the National Health Insurance Scheme cards to register.
The President visited his polling station in his hometown of Bole Tuesday, to carry out the verification process to enable him to vote in December’s elections.
Financial analyst Sidney Casely-Hayford has poked holes in the Electoral Commission’s confidence that they have fully complied with the Supreme Court order to weed out voters who registered with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) id cards.
Casely-Hayford, speaking on Citi Fm Saturday, said that he registered with his NHIS card, but remains on the rolls.
The Electoral Commission has purged over 56,000 names from its rolls, a measure taken to comply with a Supreme Court order.
The nation’s highest court had ruled that a challenge by Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako, challenging the eligibility of those who registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme identification card, was valid, and thus ordered the body to purge the name off its lists.
Strike, strike, strike, John Mahama’s middle name should be changed to strike- every conceivable public institution have gone on strike sometime within the past four years.
The latest to jump on the bandwagon, unless something drastic happens within the next few weeks, are staff of the Electoral Commission. They are threatening a nationwide strike on February 22 unless their poor conditions of service are addressed.
The Electoral Commission is in favour of holding the 2016 general elections on November 7, rather than December 7 as has been used in the past five elections.
The change is to give the commission adequate time to organise a run-off, on case no candidate is able to acquire the required 50%+1 vote needed to win outright.
