President John Mahama has accused members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of deploying schemes aimed at disputing the outcome of the December polls if it does not go their way.
According to the President, the incessant attacks on the Electoral Commission and its Chair Mrs. Charlotte Osei and allegations of bias towards the NDC from elements in the NPP forms part of a grand scheme to condition the minds of Ghanaians for a disputed election.
The President has, however, assured that the country’s electoral process has inbuilt mechanisms to ensure credible polls.
“We want a clean fair and transparent election and all of us are working towards a clean fair and transparent election. Ghana’s electoral process has enough safeguards to ensure that no party is cheated. The results of Ghana’s elections are declared at the polling station. And at each polling station every party is represented.” President Mahama told party supporters at a rally in the Tema East constituency on his tour of some parts of the Greater Accra on Saturday.
The President went further to admonish the NPP and its supporters to desist from watering the ground to reject the 2016 election results.
“And so our opponents should not prepare the ground and create an impression for a disputed election because I can see that that’s exactly what they are doing. They are attacking the EC; they are attacking the EC chair and saying she wants to steal election for NDC.”
“That’s because they can see they are going to lose the election and so they want to prepare the ground so that when they lose they will say it is the EC that stole it for NDC. The elections are going to be transparent, free and fair and NDC is going to accept the results of the election.”
“We will accept the results of the election and if they lose thy must accept the results of the election because all of us know there are 29,000 polling stations. In each of these 29,000 polling stations we are going to put 2 NDC people in each polling station, NPP must do the same, CPP must do the same, PPP must do the same, our mother’s party must do the same, what’s it? NDP.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM/Ibrahim Alhassan
