Afari-Gyan advised all polling agents to sign pink sheets, regardless

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El Kameni 11 years ago

Some of us are really fed up stiff with all these complaints by people who want some people to be president by all means. It does seem that there are some people who are fighting tooth and nail for certain personal benefits t ...
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Some of us are really fed up stiff with all these complaints by people who want some people to be president by all means. It does seem that there are some people who are fighting tooth and nail for certain personal benefits that certain outcomes of the elections will bring them.

THIS IS NOT A CRY FOR GHANA AT ALL!!! IT IS A CRY FOR PERSONAL GLORY AND BENEFITS! GEE!!!

If I had my way, new presidential elections will be held in which both Mahama and Akufo-Addo are barred from taking part. The country needs some fresh new faces and if we can do without these two tired and spent up forces, there can surely be a new beginning for Ghana, not for certain individuals.
Lelekule 11 years ago

STOP messing your soul. It's the that wants Nana as president so stop being ignorant of the law.

STOP messing your soul. It's the that wants Nana as president so stop being ignorant of the law.
Asea Ho 11 years ago

What is Gabby trying to achieve with this cheap and silly propaganda? When Afari Djan referred to fax copy with signature he was not referring to "pink sheets" but the collation form from the EC regional or district office. N ...
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What is Gabby trying to achieve with this cheap and silly propaganda? When Afari Djan referred to fax copy with signature he was not referring to "pink sheets" but the collation form from the EC regional or district office. NPP representatives in the strong room were given copies of this collation forms. There is no point in their pleadings and affidavit or during the proceedings we found or heard Gabby (who was in the strong room) and his NPP representatives in the strong room challenging final collated results. So Gabby should stop this stupid propaganda, it will not work.

All NPP at this point is doing is to create in the minds of their gullible followers that if they lose the court case, they have been denied justice and there should be no peace. This has been their position. I heard Frances Essiam on Saturday August 9, 2013 said "there will be no peace without justice" which I think is insighting people.
POZO 11 years ago

Thank you for this script.It has really enlighten us on the provisions clearly spelt out in the CI 75.

Thank you for this script.It has really enlighten us on the provisions clearly spelt out in the CI 75.
mRNA + tRNA 11 years ago

You must be as illiterate as Gabby on this topic NVNV. What verification is as defined in Standard English Dictionary? To be identified. Were the people who voted not identified before the cast the ballot to vote? Did any of ...
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You must be as illiterate as Gabby on this topic NVNV. What verification is as defined in Standard English Dictionary? To be identified. Were the people who voted not identified before the cast the ballot to vote? Did any of those NPP agents complained of anyone voting without being verified? This was gibberish from Gabby.
Papa Yaw 11 years ago

True

True
BOY KOFI 11 years ago

Gabby,have you so soon forgotten what you said?Let me remind you Gabby,this is your clear statement,"Nana Addo is a cheap opposition leader."The reason why Gabby said Nana Addo is a cheap opposition leader is that he knows Na ...
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Gabby,have you so soon forgotten what you said?Let me remind you Gabby,this is your clear statement,"Nana Addo is a cheap opposition leader."The reason why Gabby said Nana Addo is a cheap opposition leader is that he knows Nana Addo is going to lose the petition in court.In Gabby's opinion, it could have been better if Nana Addo had resorted to the streets.By the way,Gabby you are not the lawyer for the petitioners so please listen to what Addison declared in his resignation address.All the election petitioners have failed in Africa on technical grounds.He gave example of Kenya,Nigeria,Uganda and Zambia.Addison warned the petitioners not to expect victory because they are demanding the SC to do what no African country has done that before.Addison is also pleading the SC to satisfy the losers.In what way can the SC satify the losers?Thank you.
Wahabu 11 years ago

Did the EC boss also ask party agents not to complete the complain form if in their view the election process at their respective polling stations were not free and fair?

Did the EC boss also ask party agents not to complete the complain form if in their view the election process at their respective polling stations were not free and fair?
azin 12 11 years ago

The EC deliberately took steps and enacted laws with which t o rig this elections, what they did not anticipate was the NPP actually going to court. They thought with the sheer volumes of pink sheets involved, it will be impo ...
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The EC deliberately took steps and enacted laws with which t o rig this elections, what they did not anticipate was the NPP actually going to court. They thought with the sheer volumes of pink sheets involved, it will be impossible for the NPP to gather enough evidence to proceed to court, now they have been caught unprepared.
Okonko Palm 11 years ago

This man is very unscrupulous.The host of news file has been giving him too much room to talk boring nonsense packaged as facts.I watched the said program when he made this juvenile allegation of Afari instructing poling agen ...
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This man is very unscrupulous.The host of news file has been giving him too much room to talk boring nonsense packaged as facts.I watched the said program when he made this juvenile allegation of Afari instructing poling agent to sign notwithstanding.

According him this was based on a statement by Afari Gjan that not signing the pink sheet will not invalidate the declaration at the poling station.Surprisingly and without any iota of deductive reasoning this dishonest man jumps to the conclusion that it was a policy decision of the EC.

I have always thought of Otchere Darku as a man without logical reasoning but some of his conclusions of late borders on lunacy.News file is being used for his propaganda agenda for the npp and the host just sit and watch him play blatant politics with the program.

The earlier that platform is sanitized against this lot the better it will be for the image of the program.

Omanba 11 years ago

Gabby, did you provide these facts to the Petitioners? If not why? These are very interesting facts that could have made a massive difference as regards dragging that arrogant idiot down.Thanks, anyway.

Gabby, did you provide these facts to the Petitioners? If not why? These are very interesting facts that could have made a massive difference as regards dragging that arrogant idiot down.Thanks, anyway.
SKY IS 11 years ago

even with errors, omissions and irregularities on them, this 32yrs of election fraud. no wonder ndc has majority of ruling the country into poverty, when sensible party try to fix the economy, they comes and wreck it as they ...
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even with errors, omissions and irregularities on them, this 32yrs of election fraud. no wonder ndc has majority of ruling the country into poverty, when sensible party try to fix the economy, they comes and wreck it as they are doing now.
David Atugiya 11 years ago

Gabby should spare us all with this skewed propaganda. We have all watched what happened at the SC and most Ghanaians including the SC have reached a verdict on this case. Most Ghaanaians know the outcome of the petition is o ...
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Gabby should spare us all with this skewed propaganda. We have all watched what happened at the SC and most Ghanaians including the SC have reached a verdict on this case. Most Ghaanaians know the outcome of the petition is on the face of the evidence put before the court. Except the likes of Gabby, and kweku Baako. All what Gabby can do is to spare of this ranting of his. This his public stunt put out in the write up should have been offered to Addision for his address.
If this latest attempt by Gabby is to caught public opinion at the last stage of the petition hearing, when majority of Ghanaians including supporters of the NPP know that this case was a waste of time and resources of the nation, I am sorry this gimmick of Gabby will not wash. The game is truly over.
Kakraba Cromwell 11 years ago

Hmmm
So is this a "Had I known statement"?
Maybe you should have been made the lead lawyer,
What a serious mistake by Nana Addo or it is due to your competence? hehehehehehehehehehe

Hmmm
So is this a "Had I known statement"?
Maybe you should have been made the lead lawyer,
What a serious mistake by Nana Addo or it is due to your competence? hehehehehehehehehehe
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

The designation or status of polling agents whether as electoral officers entitled to be registered as special voters or as agents affected all the parties. The Constitutional Instrument was not foisted on the country by the ...
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The designation or status of polling agents whether as electoral officers entitled to be registered as special voters or as agents affected all the parties. The Constitutional Instrument was not foisted on the country by the Electoral Commission. It went before Parliament and was debated before it became law. It is hypocritical and absurd to suggest that the primary purpose of CI 75 was to frustrate the NPP. The NDC would have had the same problem sending its TESCON volunteers to Ashanti and Eastern Region.

The role of the polling Agents is specifically spelt out in legislation and nowhere are their functions reduced to observer status. The essence is not in the tile or designation but in the functions that have been spelt out in the Constitutional Instrument.

Polling Agents were not prevented from refusing to sign the pink sheets. Some indeed refused to do so. Furthermore there is a form to be completed to register any misgivings and in the cases where the Polling agents refused to sign the pink sheets, they gave their reasons. Whether as observer, electoral officer or polling agent, there are some violations that would have being instantly noticed and reported. Not by one NPP Polling Agent but several other polling agents.

Incidents where ballot boxes are filled with alien material; people voting more than once; people not verified by any certainty being allowed to vote and candidates been awarded votes inconsistent with the figures publicly announced. These matters can be correctly referred to as "illegality".

The matters alleged in the petition refer to violations and irregularities and not illegality.
It is preposterous to suggest that NPP Polling Agents witnessed illegality but signed the pink sheets nonetheless because the Electoral Commissioner in several speeches which can be linked together compelled them to do so. How were they to know for example, that the pink sheet they signed bore the same serial number as another from a different polling station? And were they condoning in perpetrating an illegal act? How were they to know that after attesting to the counting and announcement of the votes, the Presiding Officer would fail to append his signature? We they condoning in illegality? The petitioners, their counsel and legal supporters have being sauntering freely between "illegality" and "irregularity" and want us to be believe that they mean the same thing.

In all of 8 months, the petitioner has not been consistent. They first alleged fraud, criminality and the connivance of the first respondent. They alleged the electronic manipulation of transmitted results and the padding of Mahama's votes with those raided from Akuffo Addo.
Then they found irregularities with 4,000, 11,000 and then 10,000 plus pink sheets. Then they wanted 4 million in evidence and 3 million in submission, votes to be annulled.

For 8 months they have been all at sea with their arithmetic but then expect a national exercise which took place over 2 days to be perfectly recorded on pink sheets such that blanks are read as blanks and not zero.

Now Afari Gyan advised NPP Polling Agents to sign pink sheets regardless. Knowing the NPP, they sent out their agents to be eagle eyed.
Kakraba Cromwell 11 years ago

Wow !!!
As for this General. I think Gabby would be very confused with your excellent rebuttal.
Well done

Wow !!!
As for this General. I think Gabby would be very confused with your excellent rebuttal.
Well done
Kalira 11 years ago

Does this analysis constitute an election rigging

Does this analysis constitute an election rigging
Tommy Wood 11 years ago

Where were you when petition was being filed?

Where were you when petition was being filed?
BOY KOFI 11 years ago

Why didn't Gabby stand for the petitioners if he knows the law better than Addison?Thank you.

Why didn't Gabby stand for the petitioners if he knows the law better than Addison?Thank you.
ATO 11 years ago

DR AFARI GYAN WAS EXPLAINING WHY FAX MACHINES ARE STILL RELEVANT; AND WHY THE EC WAS STILL GOING TO USE FAX MACHINES. HE DID INDEED SAY THAT FAX MACHINES ALLOW THE THE EC TO SEE THE SIGNATURE OF THE PERSON WHO IS SENDING THE ...
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DR AFARI GYAN WAS EXPLAINING WHY FAX MACHINES ARE STILL RELEVANT; AND WHY THE EC WAS STILL GOING TO USE FAX MACHINES. HE DID INDEED SAY THAT FAX MACHINES ALLOW THE THE EC TO SEE THE SIGNATURE OF THE PERSON WHO IS SENDING THE FAX. DR AFARI DJAN DID NOT SAY THAT THE EC WAS GOING TO DISREGARD ANY COLLATION SHEET WHICH DID NOT HAVE THE SIGNATURE OF THE PRESIDING OFFICER.

DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 11 years ago

"Where were you when petition was being filed."

Hahaha, made my day, bro.

"Where were you when petition was being filed."

Hahaha, made my day, bro.
Monitor 11 years ago

Weren't the political parties involved in the crafting of the CI.75??? What is your point then Gabby??

Weren't the political parties involved in the crafting of the CI.75??? What is your point then Gabby??
BOY KOFI 11 years ago

Looking at the pétitioners claims,there is nothing about fraud,rigging and stealing.They are not able to say it was Nana Addo had more votes than Mahama.All their claims are based on pink sheets clerical errors but nothing ...
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Looking at the pétitioners claims,there is nothing about fraud,rigging and stealing.They are not able to say it was Nana Addo had more votes than Mahama.All their claims are based on pink sheets clerical errors but nothing about vote stealing,rigging or fraud.The claim as follows, Voting without verification,2.unsigned pink sheets by Presiding Officers,3.over voting.4.duplicated serial numbers are all clerical problems but not the actual results.In reality the petitioners are not challenging the votes of Prez Mahama or the results he scored.Nana Addo knows that he lost the élections but trying to find loopholes in the law to steal the verdict of the people.There is nowhere in the petition that Prez Mahama's votes were padded.The Npp wants some millions of votes to be thrown away because they voted massive for Mahama.Do they think the judges will accept this lousy petition? In a democratic election you must win élections by votes and nothing else.Thank you.
Paul Amuna 11 years ago

Is Otchere-Darko telling us and the whole world that Dr Afari Gyan emphasised signing the pink sheets by poling agents yet ignored their right to appeal any anomalies by completing a complaints form?

Has he studied the pin ...
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Is Otchere-Darko telling us and the whole world that Dr Afari Gyan emphasised signing the pink sheets by poling agents yet ignored their right to appeal any anomalies by completing a complaints form?

Has he studied the pink sheet to see if there is a portion for indicating if there has been any incident reported at the polling station?

You cannot simply take a transcript from public radio broadcast, ignore certain aspects and present those that you think will favour your arguments. That said, Dr Afari Gyan in that transcript made it clear about how different categories of voter would be captured by the verification machines and process (NVNV) and I cannot see any contradiction with his testimony in court.

So what is Otchere-Darko trying to achieve at this late hour, 5 minutes to midnight except to rally his supporters in case the ruling does not go in their favour. This is a veiled and dangerous opinion piece and Ghanaians should note it for what it is - propaganda!
SUMBRUNGU 11 years ago

Now we can make sense of the multiple failures of Gabby at the Law School which necessitated him bribing his way to the Bar several years after he first enrolled as a student.

Now we can make sense of the multiple failures of Gabby at the Law School which necessitated him bribing his way to the Bar several years after he first enrolled as a student.
BOY KOFI 11 years ago

Where is lawyer Phillip Addison,has he demissioned?Thank you.

Where is lawyer Phillip Addison,has he demissioned?Thank you.
K BOATENG 11 years ago

PLEASE GABBY SHOULD ALSO PLAY THE AUDIO OF NANA ADDO WHICH STATES ....'ELECTION IS ABOUT THE VOTE AND THOSE WHO VOTE. ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT ADMINISTRATIVE ERRORS NOR IRREGULARITIES BUT ABOUT VOTES CAST WHICH IS SACRED AND G ...
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PLEASE GABBY SHOULD ALSO PLAY THE AUDIO OF NANA ADDO WHICH STATES ....'ELECTION IS ABOUT THE VOTE AND THOSE WHO VOTE. ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT ADMINISTRATIVE ERRORS NOR IRREGULARITIES BUT ABOUT VOTES CAST WHICH IS SACRED AND GOD-GIVEN.SO WHAT IS GABBY TALKING ABOUT.IT IS ABOUT THE BALLOT CAST AND NOT PAPER WORK.
John Anamse 11 years ago

Since when did Afari Djan become a law unto himself such that even if he gets up in the morning and coughs by error all Ghanaians must cough before their votes become valid.

As far as we all know, the Law is proposed by so ...
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Since when did Afari Djan become a law unto himself such that even if he gets up in the morning and coughs by error all Ghanaians must cough before their votes become valid.

As far as we all know, the Law is proposed by somebodyelse but must be passed or validated at Parliarment and must receive presidential accent.

The Law is not in the Bossom of Afari Djan.

Afari Djan can be dragged to court if he says or behaves contrary to Law. He is human and subject to errors

All Lawyers must know better
Whatever 11 years ago

This is what Afari Gyan said "It is better to advise your agents to stay there and get a copy of the polling station results.” That is not the same as Afari Gyan advising polling agents to sign pink sheet regardless? Gabby ...
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This is what Afari Gyan said "It is better to advise your agents to stay there and get a copy of the polling station results.” That is not the same as Afari Gyan advising polling agents to sign pink sheet regardless? Gabby should come again
Moses 11 years ago

From head to toe, they are all stupid

From head to toe, they are all stupid

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