The New Patriotic Party‘s National Organiser, Sammi Awuku has refuted claims by the NDC that the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Identification Authority (NIA) are in league to rig the elections in favour of the ruling government.
To him, it will be near impossible, even a “miracle” for such an action to succeed.
“We have never relied on the Electoral Commission since 1992…in today’s Ghana, it will be a miracle and an accident in history for the chairperson of the EC and her commissioners to rig the elections for a political party; it will be difficult,” he said while contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, Friday.
NDC’s Allegations
The NDC, at two press conferences this week, said activities being undertaken by the NIA and the EC ahead of the 2020 polls were all geared towards rigging the elections.
The oppositon party had earlier posited that the use of the National Identification card and passport as evidence of identification during registration despite the limited number of Ghanaians who have these requirements, was unfortunate.
National Chairman of the NDC, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and NDC’s Director of Elections, Mr. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, at two separate media briefings on Tuesday and Thursday respectively, said the EC Chairperson and Executive Director of National Identification Authority (NIA) intended to rig the elections by denying about 11 million Ghanaians – majority of them from the stronghold of the NDC – the Ghana Card which would enable them to take part in the EC’s planned compilation of new voters register.
They contend that the decision by the EC to use the Ghana Card and passport as the only required documents to get registered as voters was a calculated plan as part of the rigging process as many people would be disenfranchised.
“As we predicted, the Ghana card registration process by the NIA has been very slow such that till date, the process which commenced with a pilot in late 2017 and was supposed to be completed in one year, has been able to register only 11,062,055 out of about 19 million Ghanaians (15 years and above) who are eligible to be registered.
