{"id":67900,"date":"2013-04-22T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/dep-minister-criticises-npps-over-reliance-on-afari-gyans-quote\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:35:19","slug":"dep-minister-criticises-npps-over-reliance-on-afari-gyans-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/22\/dep-minister-criticises-npps-over-reliance-on-afari-gyans-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Dep. Minister criticises NPP’s over-reliance on Afari Gyan’s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dep.<\/div>\n

Deputy Minister for Energy, John Jinapor has criticized what he believes is an over-reliance by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Afari Gyan\u2019s famous quote \u201cthe name of the game is evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n

In June 2012, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan cautioned political parties against denigrating the EC without proof of wrong doing and stated succinctly that \u201cevidence is the name of the game\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Jinapor said the fact that Afari Gyan organized \u201ca press conference\u201d and \u201cmakes a statement does not necessarily amount to what you would call a law\u201d and concluded that \u201cAfari Gyan is not a judge\u201d.<\/p>\n

He argued that in \u201cfresh cases\u201d such as the election petition, the Supreme Court makes \u201cjudgments\u201d that become law known as case laws. He inferred that the Supreme Court could make a ruling that could become a “law”.<\/p>\n

But co-panelist and spokesperson for the NPP\u2019s legal team Yaw Boabeng Asamoah, said the statement by the E.C Boss was not a product of his \u201cwhims and caprices\u201d but was rooted in law. Mr. Boabeng Asamoah inferred that the NPP\u2019s constant reference to Afari Gyan\u2019s statement was not merely referring to him but to a well-founded rule of the law.<\/p>\n

He said \u201can election is a process governed by law\u201d managed by Afari Gyan just as much as the petition in court was also based on \u201cbreaches of the law\u201d.<\/p>\n

He accused the E.C of invalidating \u201cpolling station results\u201d- a claim Mr. Jinapor said the E.C has constantly denied- and said that \u201cif you do things inconsistent with the law, they are unlawful\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Minister for Energy, John Jinapor has criticized what he believes is an over-reliance by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Afari Gyan\u2019s famous quote \u201cthe name of the game is evidence\u201d.In June 2012, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan cautioned political parties against denigrating the EC without proof of wrong doing and stated succinctly that \u201cevidence is the name of the game\u201d.But Mr. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}