I'll go to court again to seek justice - Ayariga on 2nd EC snub

Flagbearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has declared his intention go to court for the second to seek justice for his disqualification from the 2016 presidential race.

Disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC) as part of twelve others over some anomalies on their nomination forms, Mr Ayariga sued and won at an Accra High Court which stated that the EC erred by not allowing him time to make corrections on his form.

The EC, however, after losing a similar case against the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) thad taken the matter to the Supreme Court which ruled on Monday, November 7, 2016 that the EC extend the deadline for submission of nomination forms to allow the 12 disqualified presidential nominees to amend their forms.

The EC identified other errors on Mr Ayariga's form which he could not correct before the close of the second nomination period and was was again disqualified.

But according to Mr Ayariga, the disqualification was more of the EC Chairperson,  Charlotte Osei taking the law into her hands than his inability to fill the form and it was in light of this that “we will go to court but I don’t want to hold the whole country to ransom, [so] I will not put an injunction on the election but I will seek for justice to be delivered to me and to the whole world to know that that people cannot take the law into their own hands and do whatever they want and walk away with it,” he said.

Speaking at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra on Friday he explained that, “we want justice for our nation; we want justice for the many million Ghanaians who are before me and around me. It is not about Hassan Ayariga and the EC, it is about our nation and all of you want to see that justice is delivered. In mathematics, once you get one equation wrong, no matter the formulas you use, the end result will be wrong. So if we allow the virus of the EC to affect Hassan Ayariga it will affect the rest of you in the future and we don’t want that to happen so let’s correct the virus now", 

“The APC has spent millions of cedis to get to where we are. This is a serious political party and after a month after we have campaigned throughout and when its left with one month to the election then you come out to disqualify political leaders and you say you are following the regulation C.I. 94 (9)(2b). Yes but you only follow the path that suits you and the path that doesn’t suit you, you don’t care. But we will use the same regulation C.I. 94 (9) (2b) to make sure that justice is delivered to APC, Dr. Hassan Ayariga and our election,” the APC flagbearer added.