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  • EC has no basis to disqualify me – Bernard Mornah fumes

    EC has no basis to disqualify me – Bernard Mornah fumes

    Bernard Mornah, the flagbearer for the People’s National Convention (PNC), has pledged to contest his disqualification by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the upcoming 2024 elections.

    On September 20, the EC announced the approval of 13 candidates for the December 7 presidential race, but Mornah, along with 10 others, faced disqualification after the vetting process.

    In response, Mornah expressed his determination to challenge the decision, threatening legal action if necessary.

    “It is a terrible afternoon but you can be assured that I am a fighter and I will fight this to the end, I will not accept this kind of disrespect and we will not accept the fact that the electoral commission does not want to play according to the rules.

    “The EC received our forms on 13th of September. By 12: PM we had submitted our nomination forms and at 6:35 AM on Saturday I got a call from one Samuel Quoao, I don’t know him, he said he had sent a letter from the EC that there were some anomalies with the forms,” he said in an interview on Accra-based TV3.

    Mornah recounted the timeline of events leading to his disqualification, indicating that his nomination forms were submitted on September 13.

    He received a call from a person named Samuel Quoao, informing him of purported discrepancies in his forms just hours later.

    He believes the EC’s basis for disqualification is unfounded, as he had promptly corrected any errors identified in the documents.

    “I counted about seven different pages and the EC claimed that we have some anomalies. I immediately sent that the forms should be picked in accordance with the EC’s directive and the forms were completed on Saturday and returned. Mr Quauo called that our forms had been rectified,” he explained.

  • I ate lizards to survive – Bernard Mornah tells chilling account of childhood struggles

    I ate lizards to survive – Bernard Mornah tells chilling account of childhood struggles

    Former National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Anbataayela Mornah, has recounted the times he went through while growing up in his village of Sankana in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region.

    This is the first time the Nkrumahist is detailing his life story and how hard things became for him to the extent that he had to devise his own means of survival to cope with the hunger at the time.

    Detailing his struggles with Ohenewaa Kesse Boahen on CTV, monitored by MyNewsGh.com, the youth activist and by far one of Ghana’s serial demonstrators disclosed that he had to hunt and cook lizards for a meal.

    “I had to go round with a cane looking for lizards, hunt lizards and go and roast or cook it and use that as my meal to survive” he disclosed to the shock of the hostess and reiterated “I ate lizards to survive”.

    “When you get the lizard, you look for millet and go to the grinding stone to mill the millet and mix the stock of the cooked lizard with the millet. We call it ‘kankale’; then you eat it”, he explained.

    “It was an experience but that shaped my growing up”, he said, adding: “You can understand the humanity in me that when it comes to suffering, I went through it, I lived it and, so, when I see people, I can feel what they are going through and that is how come I’m so passionate when I’m making my national conversations because I lived these circumstances”. He stressed.


    Regarding his approach to studying, he revealed that he never had the privilege of studying with electricity or even locally made lanterns. Instead, he had to rely on the illumination provided by the moonlight.

    “My mother will not give you her ‘Bobo’ lamp to study because she will complain that the oil may finish. So you have to read with the moonlight and when it enters the clouds, you sit and wait for it to come out. I had to be reading very fast when the moon was up”, he recounted.