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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY 10 years ago

    Nothing on this earth will redeem these snakes and rats.

  • Kwao 10 years ago

    Nana's own petition had massive irregularities. Yet, u expect over 60,000 EC Officials to conduct elections without an aorta of irregularity. What the fuck? Are human beings robots?
    Useless petition. Till now u havent proved ...
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  • moyo 10 years ago

    EC admitted there were errors as elections all over the world, errors can be identified. The errors did change the results because the were simply clerical errors which will not warrant any cancellation of the results. NPP w ...
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  • Kofi - USA 10 years ago

    MOYO I DONT FOLLOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. YOU SAID THE :ERRORS DID CHANGE THE RESULTS BECAUSE THE WERE SIMPLY CLERICAL ERRORS WHICH WILL NOT WARRANT ANY CANCELLATION OF THE RESULTS". WHAT YOU SAID DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE. YOU A ...
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  • Kalira 10 years ago

    Even a child can easily see It was typing mistake, these are some of the mistakes that happened during our elections. Npp stop deceiving your souls

  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF IF HE STANDS BY THE TRUTH. INITIALLY I THOUGHT THE PETETION WAS FRIVILOUS BUT WHEN HE STARTED UNDERRATING THE IMPACTS OF ERRORS COMMITED BY HIS OUTFIT I HAD A MIND CHANGE. MAY THE TRUTH A ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Source: Daily Guide...

    All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.

    Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call him ...
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  • Joe Kojo 10 years ago

    Kofi-USA, in Ghana we do not use the electoral college system as is done the US. Ghana's system makes use of the simple majority of the ballots counted. So please don't be comparing apples to water melons in your arguments. I ...
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  • Templar 10 years ago

    I think you did not get the second part of what MOYO was saying. This is how I understood him, let's say NPP were to get the Presidency of Ghana and Nana was to rule, he will find it difficult to get most of his policiess or ...
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  • Nelson Mandela 10 years ago

    Sorry Templar but you are also making the same mistake Moyo made which Kofi pointed out. In the US, Obama the Democrat is president and Senate (parliament) is made up of Republican majority. Juxtapose it and it's like what yo ...
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  • Kalira 10 years ago

    Oh npp stop deceiving your souls

  • Mike 10 years ago

    This is what we called checks and balances. it should always be the case so that no one party becomes powerful. We have seen how the USA congress and the senate along side the presidency is. GOP takes control of the house whi ...
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  • Kokroko 10 years ago

    Fortunately, nincompoops like you and your miserable family will not be part of the ruling. No wonder your grammar is so bad you write DESPERATION, "dESPIRATION." Was as 'was.' Have you thought about how your so called irreg ...
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  • Kalira 10 years ago

    We arent doing grammar here,. Npp stop deceiving your souls

  • Osei Agyeman-Prempeh 10 years ago

    An aorta of irregularity????? You're but a nitwit.Go back to school.

  • think again 10 years ago

    when politics and the law collide the law come off worse

  • ghana 10 years ago

    the whistle maybe for peace or for war.
    God Save Ghana.

  • ghana 10 years ago

    the whistle maybe for peace or for war.
    God Save Ghana.

  • ghana 10 years ago

    the whistle maybe for peace or for war.
    God Save Ghana.

  • Abram Abraham 10 years ago

    It is correct that Article 49 specifies the functions of the Presiding Officer at the polling station.You deliberately decided not to mention the functions of the polling agents.Where all the polling agents numbering about 8 ...
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  • Ghanaman 10 years ago

    When you are given a cheque to the bank which needed three signatures, the absence of one signature would render the cheque invalid and untenable. That is the situation at the moment.

  • Adusei 10 years ago

    Tell us what the NPP presented to get the justices to cancel our votes which we suffered to cast for all the candidates including Hon. Nana Addo.

  • Koo Emma 10 years ago

    But how do we know that the pink sheet itself is authentic seeing that there were duplicates, triplicates and even quadruplicates. Or if you are given an unsigned cheque by someone you said you have worked for, so tou think t ...
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  • Kalira 10 years ago

    Npp stop deceiving your souls

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    The concern citizens of Ghanaians abroad such as America, Canada, London, Germany, Italy, Australia and Holland, is appealing to the highest court of our country to throw the petitioners foolish and diabolical case that is ha ...
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  • Kofi - USA 10 years ago

    YOU KEEP WRITING THE SAME NONSENSE OVER AND OVER AGAIN EVERYDAY. WHT IS WRONG WITH YOU? DONT YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO WRITE OR THIS IS THE ONLY ENGLISH YOU KNOW. IT IS PATHETIC SO STOP BEING IDIOTIC AND DO SOMETHING BETTE ...
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  • Kayode 10 years ago

    "I'm guilty but I have an explanation..." This used to be the m.o. for police officers back in those days. What year are we in now for the EC to tell us that there were irregularities but somehow they did not affect the outco ...
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  • Kayode 10 years ago

    "I'm guilty but I have an explanation..." This used to be the m.o. for police officers back in those days. What year are we in now for the EC to tell us that there were irregularities but somehow they did not affect the outco ...
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  • Kayode 10 years ago

    "I'm guilty but I have an explanation..." This used to be the m.o. for police officers back in those days. What year are we in now for the EC to tell us that there were irregularities but somehow they did not affect the outco ...
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  • Kwao 10 years ago

    Your own petition had irregularities. Yet, u expect over 60,000 EC Officials to conduct elections without an aorta of irregularity. What the fuck? Are human beings robots?
    Useless petition. Till now u havent proved how the e ...
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  • Kwao 10 years ago

    Your own petition had irregularities. Yet, u expect over 60,000 EC Officials to conduct elections without an aorta of irregularity. What the fuck?

    Are human beings robots?
    Useless petition. Till now u havent proved how th ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    stop all the nonsense... why do we have the supreme court?

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    let the court decide

  • Abuba kar 10 years ago

    EC DID NOT PROVE TO BE NEUTRAL THEY SOUND THEY ARE PART OF NDC. THIS CANT BE. AFARI GYAN IS GUILTY. HE MUST BE SANCTIONED BY THE SUPREME CT.

  • HARRY 10 years ago

    AND SO WHAT?.IF WE SHOULD GO BACK TO 2000 ELECTIONS,IT WAS WORSE. IN MY CONSTITUENCY VOTERS WERE CAUGHT RED HANDED WITH 3,4 BALLOT PAPERS IN AN NPP STRONGHOLD. THE PRESIDING OFFICER ADMITTED THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE. WE LET IT G ...
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  • A LOST BATTLE 10 years ago

    POOR NPP, YOU THINK GHANAIANS ARE NOT SO SMART TO IDENTIFY YOUR EMPTY PROPAGANDA? WHY SHOULD YOU RUSH TO TALK ABOUT ELECTORAL COMMISSION'S WRITTEN ADDRESS AND REFUSE TO TELL GHANAIANS ABOUT THE CONTENT OF YOUR WRITTEN ADDRESS ...
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  • HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 10 years ago

    NPP, BYE BYE... HEHEHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • Court Witness 10 years ago

    The behaviour of Afari Gyan from start to finish seems to suggest that he does not care about the outcome of the case. His utterances since polls closed on 8th December show that he is a callous man who would not blink an eye ...
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  • We Go Sell 10 years ago

    Buy/sell across all African cities at www.wegosell.com

  • kkd 10 years ago

    so e/c want to tell us going to court was easy

  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    When Gbagbo used the Supreme Court to install himself legally over Ivorian people,it was Npp who wanted Prof.Mills to use Ghana Army to go and drive him out.Unfortunately,Nana Addo has forgotten the Ivorian experience that wh ...
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  • HOLY GOAT 10 years ago

    Parliament must legislate to make it an imprisonable offence for anyone other than the EC to declare the results of an election. Having declared themselves winners, no amount of common sense could make the NPP think otherwise ...
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  • Goddey 10 years ago

    Our lives are in God's hands

  • HOLY GOAT 10 years ago

    ONLY THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE IS SACRED. ALL ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS CANNOT DENY THE CITIZEN HIS RIGHT FOR HIS VOTE TO BE COUNTED.

  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo must be laughing out his lungs at poor Nana Addo.Was it not Npp who asked Cbagbo to obey what the EC declared in 2010 Ivorian presidential elections?Now,NPP must also obey what our EC h ...
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  • Joe Kojo 10 years ago

    Hello NPP, you better tell this to the SC as those of us reading this cheap propaganda are in no position to help you. If you think you have a case, tell the judges!!!

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    If they sincerely think they are riding on a case of merit, then they would have indeed laid it bare before the Supreme Court Judges. The irony of their daily hubbub is, 46 days came and gone and their touted so-called ironcl ...
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  • Eddie Attipoe 10 years ago

    GHANAWEB IS FOR OBJECTIVE READERS. NPP SHOULD USE THEIR WEBSITE IN EDUCATING THEIR FOLLOWERS AND STOP USING GHANAWEB FOR THEIR PROPAGANDA. IF NNP COMMUNICATION TEAM HAS RESORTED TO GHANAWEB FOR THEIR BIASED REPORTING, SOME OF ...
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  • Koo Emma 10 years ago

    So this was EC's address. Baa suyi serious ba ( they were not serious, in Hausa). We hope justice will be done now that we know the truth.

  • Ewusi 10 years ago

    Afri Gyan playing in the sand like a child.He said Petitioners have no evidence,but now admitting mistakes were made.

  • mimi 10 years ago

    What did NPP send to the Supreme Court? Let us know.

  • Asea Ho 10 years ago

    What the NPP should understand is that Ghanaians listerned an watched the proceedings. They saw how NPP manufactured pink sheets; how the submitted duplicates, tripplecates and quadupricates of pink sheets; the fact that the ...
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  • OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

    Using the American method will ensure transparency and eliminate all these fraudulent paperworks. The results will be known at the strike of a closing second. Why must we retain same idiots to bring havock to the nation ? FIR ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Npp must do what they asked Laurent Gbagbo to do,concede defeat honourably as declared by EC.Gbagbo was even better than Nana Addo because he asked for only a recount but Nana Addo wants over 4 million valid votes cast to be ...
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  • yaw 10 years ago

    why is npp jumping the gun? they should wait for the court. period!

  • Otoo Baah 10 years ago

    It is sweet to be a judge over one's own cause.

  • Atta Kwaku 10 years ago

    You see how stupid you look like?e how your outfit has coused ha today.You deserved a jail term or firing squard.Opanin Kwasa like you.

  • MATIGARI 10 years ago

    THE EC SHOULD RATHER BE THINKING OF HIRING PEOPLE WITH INTEGRITY AND WITH SOME LEVEL OF 'MATHEMATIC KNOWLEDGE' TO AVOID SIMPLE BASIC ERROR IN THE TABULATION/COLLATION SHEETS. TRAINING OF THIS CATEGORY OF STAFF SHOULD BE DONE ...
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  • R.K 10 years ago

    My brothers and sisters, for the 46 days at the court, did NPP prove how the results were affected by the so called irregularities? They only wish to be president through the back door by counting on the number of judges on t ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    When will this so-called NPP Communication Directorate stop patronising others? Why not simply stick to your own submissions to the court and allow the court to assess for themselves everyone's address? Is it the length or ap ...
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  • SUMBRUNGU 10 years ago

    A masterful response grounded on sound law and introvertible evidence. Most NPP supporters will be crestfallen by this powerful, coherent and well-articulated response from the EC. On the strength of this response, we could a ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    If elections are supposed to start at 8am and it start at 12pm or even 15-minutes late, it is an irregularity. Afari Gyan explained this. So if we are going go to go by NPP's logic, then virtually the whole election result wi ...
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  • nana. GA 10 years ago

    Why are some people panicking especially the NDC writers on this page?
    Why not wait for the verdict? Ghana is at its highest peak of corruption and the fools do not even talk about it. The fear is that if Nana wins this cas ...
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  • nana. GA 10 years ago

    Don't hide your identity and write nonsense about NPP. Are you a judge? Afari Gyan himself admitted irregularities, and so who are you to think otherwise. bastard.

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Hoestly, you are such a dumb fellow because nana. GA is not an identity. In the cyber world, you use avatar names to identify yourself. When did you learn how to use the internet...gush? If you say nana. GA, which physical t ...
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  • CONFLICTIVO 10 years ago

    I BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT THE PANEL OF JUDGES ARE COMPETENT ENOUGH TO COME OUT WITH A FAIR AND GOOD VERDICT TO SUIT THIS CASE.LETS ALL KEEP COME CALM AND SEE THT OUT COME WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF ANXIETY.LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED COUNTR ...
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  • osei yao 10 years ago

    Did the SC hear evidence from any pooling station officer as to why the pink sheets were not signed? Ir the court is content to rely on speculative explanations of lawyers? If so, how much weight will the judges place on such ...
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  • truth 10 years ago

    over 4 million people are waiting to cause trouble in Ghana if their votes are cancelled

  • k.osei kwame,lagos. 10 years ago

    NDC won the electios.nothing else.There wil be no more elections in Ghana if ndc is not allowed to rule based on their mandate entrusted on it, the party,by the majority of Ghanaians. Future elections wil not be successful,ca ...
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  • solomon 10 years ago

    EC has wasted our time