#GhanaDecides2024: Here are the 11 disqualified presidential candidates
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#GhanaDecides2024: Here are the 11 disqualified presidential candidates

Ghana’s Electoral Commission has published a list of thirteen presidential candidates who would participate in the country’s Presidential poll scheduled for Dec. 7, 2024. The Commission made the determination after thoroughly examining the nomination forms submitted by the various presidential candidates to ensure their compliance with requirements as set out by law. The cleared Presidential […]

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Mahama’s 2020 campaign promise to pardon jailed ‘galamseyers’ misquoted

Claim: An X user, Gen Buhari, alleges that ex-Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama promised to pardon jailed illegal miners to allow them to continue with their activities. Verdict: False. Investigations by JUSTFACT GHANA have revealed that John Mahama, the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), did not make the alleged claim. In 2020, […]

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Bawumia’s aide misquotes Mahama on food inflation in Africa

Claim: Krobea Kwabena Asante, an aide to the Presidential candidate of Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, reported ex-President John Mahama as saying the country “has the worst food inflation in Africa.” Verdict: False. JUSTFACT GHANA’s investigations showed that the ex-Ghanaian President, John Mahama, did not make the claim Mr Kwabena Asante […]

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Claim that Mahama said he’ll abolish all Ghanaian taxes, false

Claim: An X user has alleged that John Dramani Mahama, the 2024 Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has promised to scrap all taxes in Ghana if elected in Dec. 2024. Verdict: False. JUSTFACT GHANA investigations have revealed that the ex-Ghanaian leader, John Mahama, did not make the comment the X user […]