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Hassan Ayariga, 2012 Presidential candidate of the People�s National Convention (PNC), says commentators who troop out of the Supreme Court onto media platforms to analyze the proceedings do not show any level of understanding of the issues that transpire in the court. He said several analysts of the court case only come out to speak their �feelings� instead of the facts and tend to �corrupt the information� regarding the petition challenging the validity of the total votes cast for President John Mahama during the 2012 general elections. He said on Radio Gold�s newspaper review that �many of these people do not understand the law and sometimes, actually come out on radio stations and say what their feeling is about it. They just talk based on their own feeling, not based on the law.� In addition, they feed the masses with the wrong information and for that matter, he advised the commentators to give the Counsel for the parties involved in the election dispute freedom to prove their case. According to him, the persons who give commentaries after the court proceedings are �corrupting the information. Lawyers interpret their information, differently has we who are not lawyers. So, I will think that we should even exercise some patience about that and restrain people from commenting on it and wait until when it is over because those people who sit down and comment on it are not lawyers and don�t even know the law very well like Tsatsu is saying. They don�t know law very well. So, I think that it is time for us to be very careful about this matter, allow the lawyers to go on with their issues.� He also added his voice to comments that the election case is a waste, believing that at the end of the day, Ghanaians will see the petition as �being not just as a waste of time but [waste] of resources.�