Hassan Ayariga blames NCCE for his disqualification
Disqualified presidential aspirant of the All People’s Congress, Hassan Ayariga has blamed the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) for his exclusion from the 2016 presidential elections.
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According to him, the Commission failed to do its civic responsibility of educating electorates on what was required of them if they wanted to endorse party flagbearers for the December polls.
The Electoral Commission (EC) disqualified Mr Ayariga because some persons who subscribed to his candidature endorsed other candidates in the race.
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He subsequently filed a suit at the Accra High Court, seeking a declaration from the court that the EC has no power to disqualify him and a further order by the court to compel the EC to accept his nomination forms and to include his name on the ballot for the 2016 presidential elections.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday following the adjournment of the case to Friday, October 28, Mr Ayariga blamed the NCCE for his current woe.
He said, “Given 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.”
“So if those common mistakes are happening then it means that the NCCE didn’t do a good job because if they had done a good job, I don’t think we would have these common errors coming from the voter,” he added.
