NDC presents evidence of electoral fraud
Zaratu Yussif
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has
presented to the general public evidence of electoral fraud in the just-ended
December 7 elections, which his party has gathered so far.
The party which still maintains its stance that, 2020
presidential election results declared by Jean Mensa, the Electoral Commission
(EC) Chairperson is a ‘stolen verdict’ for the incumbent president, Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo, hence his party's rejection of the declared results.
At a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra, Sammy
Gyamfi, the Communications Officer of the party claimed some evidence gathered
by the party so far has established the point that the Jean Mensa-led EC at
some polling stations decided to reduce the votes of the NDC candidate, John
Dramani Mahama, and added more figures to the votes of candidate Akufo-Addo.
He indicated that what the party has detected in their audit
of the pink sheets is “naked thievery”.
Sammy Gyamfi cited an example thus, “So Sunyani West SDA
Primary School, Chiraa 1 Polling Station, the number of voters on the voter’s
register is 49. Total ballots allocated to the polling station by the EC per
the constituency ballot statistics document they themselves gave political
parties is 60.”
“Yet, the total votes cast at the polling station is 466 as
recorded on the face of the pink sheet. If this is not evidence of electoral
fraud, then what is it?” he questioned.
“Mind you, this is just one out of the thousands of cases of
over-voting we have uncovered through our painstaking audit of pink sheets,” he
added.
Sammy Gyamfi averred, “right from the onset, it was clear
that the NPP was given an illegal advantage to cheat by the Electoral
Commission. They have been given official ballot papers which were security
materials, stamped with the EC’s validation stamp…”
Sammy Gyamfi stressed that the NDC have “all the pink sheets
and at the right time, we are going to make our findings public”.
The EC within 48 hours of voting on Wednesday, December 9,
declared the incumbent President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the
president-elect of Ghana, but has changed its figures several times, all of
which point to a run-off election, yet the EC claims its wrongful addition of
figures and calculation of percentages are correct.
For example, the EC on Thursday, December 10, issued a
statement admitting an error saying its Chairperson, “inadvertently used
13,433,573 as the total valid votes cast”.
“The total valid votes cast is 13,119,460. This does not
change the percentages stated for each candidate and the declaration made by
the Chairperson.”
John Dramani Mahama, who led the NDC into the 2020
elections, at a press conference after the EC declared President Akufo-Addo the
winner of the presidential race, described the results as ‘flawed and
fictionalised.’
Mahama averred that data available to his party from across
all the 16 regions of Ghana showed that he had won the 2020 presidential
election, insisting that any other pronouncement by the EC was evidence of
manipulation of figures.
He, therefore, rejected the outcome of the presidential
election.
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