Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said the party is going into the December 2024 elections fully prepared, considering the posture of the Electoral Commission (EC).
The NDC suspects that the EC is planning on scheming affairs in favour of the NPP, the reason they are not leaving anything to chance.
He says previous incidents in the recent by-elections held shows they have to confront the race with their own referee as Prof. Azumah Nelson, a former Ghanaian professional boxer, indicated some time ago.
Speaking with Nana Yaa Brefo Danso on Onua FM’s morning show, Yen Nsempa Wednesday, May 22, 2024, the National Chairman of the NDC said it was their vigilance that won them the Assin North by-election and not the EC’s neutrality.
He alleged the Commission, as part of its rigging tactics, deployed persons from Kumawu who are executives for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to man the Ejisu by-election, an allegation he claims the EC couldn’t deny when it became public.
“It has come to light that some of the persons the Electoral Commission brought to supervise the Ejisu by-election were NPP executives from Kumawu.
“But what did the Electoral Commission say when the issue came out? The EC’s actions imposes extra vigilance on us and makes us leave nothing to chance. That was the reason we were more vigilant at Assin North. So it makes us try to carry our own referee into the ring like Prof. Azumah Nelson said some time ago,” he stated.
‘Elections are not won at EC headquarters’ – Electoral Commission tells NDC
The opposition NDC has raised concerns about the EC’s conduct recently which the party says smacks of an attempt to rig the polls.
According to the party, the errors in the Commission’s figures it recently posted regarding the number of persons it has registered in the ongoing limited registration exercise depicts an attempt to bloat the electoral roll to rig the elections for the government.
Also, flag bearer of the party, John Dramani Mahama, in a meeting with the Christian Ecumenical Council Monday, May 20, 2024, admonished them to speak to the EC to be wary of its ways in order not to create mayhem in the upcoming elections.
Meanwhile, the EC has discarded the allegations by the NDC saying they are unfounded.
