Election 2016:Ayariga heads to court again over disqualification

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Addressing the media over his second disqualification Friday by the Electoral Commission (EC), Ayariga said he will not injunct the upcoming election but that he is seeking justice, allaying fears the election may not be held as scheduled.
All Progressive People's (APC) presidential nominee, Hassan Ayariga , is heading to court to challenged his disqualification over errors on his nomination forms.
Addressing the media over his second disqualification Friday by the Electoral Commission (EC), Ayariga said he will not injunct the upcoming election but that he is seeking justice, allaying fears the election may not be held as scheduled.
He accused the commission of manipulating the laws to disqualify him.
“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.
The disqualified flagbearer said his decision to go to court is for the good of the nation, warning that what the commission did to him could happen to anyone in the future.
He said: “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.”
Ayariga failed to make the cut after the Supreme Court ordered the EC to extend the deadline for the submission of nomination forms following the disqualification of 12 presidential nominees.
In all, seven presidential nominees  have been cleared by the commission to contest in the December vote.
The are Ivor Kobina Greenstreet of the CPP, former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, NDP, President John Mahama of the NDC, Dr Papa Kwesi Ndoum of the PPP, Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP, Edward Mahama of the PNC and Independent candidate Jacob Osei Yeboah.

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