The Juaboso constituency executives of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have refuted claims by their Member of Parliament and parliamentary candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwabena Mintah Akandoh.
The lawmaker, has in a recent press conference alleged that the Director of the Electoral Commission in the Juaboso district has been replaced with someone who is affiliated to the NPP.
He said the new Director has recruited persons belonging to the NPP to the offices of the EC indicating the party’s intentions to compromise the integrity of the upcoming polls.
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But reacting to the allegations, the NPP executives, in a press statement signed and issued by the General Secretary and Chairman of the constituency, indicated that the claims by the MP are “baseless.”
According to the statement, Akandoh, for his three terms of office, has performed woefully and knows he will be losing the elections, the reason he has resorted to making allegations that are unfounded.
The NPP officers say they are surprised Akandoh is now accusing the same EC official who supervised all the electoral processes in the constituency of partisanship, despite cooperating and working with all factions peacefully.
The party executives, have asked the public to treat the allegations with the contempt it deserves.
Find below the full statement issued by the Juaboso NPP executives:
PRESS RELEASE ON FALSE ALLEGATION AGAINST THE PARTY AND EC BY THE OUTGOING MP OF JUABOSO
Our attention has been drawn to some deliberate lies and propaganda by the outgoing Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Mr. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections.
It is important to emphasize that these false claims by Mr. Akandoh are nothing more than desperate remarks from a Member of Parliament who, after 12 years of delivering no value to his constituents, is fully aware that he will be voted out. Consequently, he has resorted to making baseless allegations.
The claims by Mr. Mintah Akandoh are unfounded, as demonstrated by the following facts:
The current district EC director of Juaboso was not responsible for recruiting officials for the upcoming elections. The recruitment was carried out by the outgone district Election Commissioner. Therefore, the current district EC director has no knowledge of the alleged list and could not have selected the so-called NPP-affiliated EC officials, as claimed by the outgoing Member of Parliament. Our interest as a party is the fact that Akandoh and the NDC are tryinh to frustrate the EC. We will not sit unconcerned for this unscrupulous attacks. There’s a clear LI in dealing with any perceived unqualified officials. The media is not the solution, but just to tanish the image of the EC, the NPP and the electoral process.
The same electoral officials accused by Akandoh of being pro-NPP were instrumental in assisting his supporters during the electoral process in the district . These same electoral officers exhibited the voters’ register in the constituency, helped Akandoh’s supporters verify their names and polling stations, and supervised the voter registration exercise. During this process, they even assisted Akandoh and his team in registering individuals whose identities were not easily verifiable. A decision which we vehemently opposed during the registration exercise.
It is, therefore, perplexing that Akandoh, after benefiting from these very officials’ efforts, would now accuse them of partisanship.
Furthermore, it is evident that Akandoh’s actions are a desperate attempt to divert attention following the circulation of an audio recording of his own General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah. The recording exposes Akandoh’s failures to utilize the millions of Ghana cedis he received as a Member of Parliament for the development of the constituency.
The wild claims by Mr. Akandoh should be dismissed and treated with the contempt they deserve.
Hon. Maxwell Quansah
Juaboso Constituency Secretary
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Affum Stephen
Constituency Chairman
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