The All People's Congress is a Ghanian political party formed as a breakaway from the People's National Convention (PNC).

History

It was founded in 2016 by Hassan Ayariga after leaving the People's National Convention, where he lost out to Edward Mahama as the presidential candidate for the December 2016 general election. The party's focus for the election campaign was employment and economics.

Disqualification

Two months before the

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, Charlotte Osei, chairman of the

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announced that 13 presidential candidates, including Hassan Ayariga, had been disqualified from standing as presidential candidates in the December elections due to problems with the nomination documents they filed with the commission. These included failure to declare his hometown or constituency of residence on his forms as well as two of the subscribers on his forms having been named on another candidates forms which are in contravention of the electoral laws. The forms were also alleged to contain forged signatures and were to be referred to the

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for investigation. The subscriber duplication involved someone who had also signed papers for his former party, the APC's nominee. Ayariga expressed his frustration at this development.

Election results

Presidential elections

Parliamentary elections

References