The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has welcomed calls by the Electoral Commission (EC) for transparent investigations into allegations of electoral fraud made by former President John Dramani Mahama.
According to the party, this is what it has been yearning for and expressed gratitude that the Jean Mensa-led EC has at long last accepted this call after trying to avoid accountability by refusing to answer interrogatories and testify in the witness box during the Election Petition hearing.
“We wish to state unequivocally that all the issues raised by our flagbearer are supported by incontrovertible evidence and facts. We are ever-ready to avail ourselves to prove same before any credible forum,” a statement issued by the NDC said.
“The deliberate printing of excess ballot papers by the Jean Mensah/Bossman Asare-led EC, some of which were authenticated with the official validation stamp of the EC and thumb-printed for Candidate Akufo-Addo for purposes of ballot stuffing; and the use of some of our State Security Agencies to forcefully manipulate the election outcome in favour of the ruling NPP, which led to the killing of eight innocent Ghanaians, have cast an indelible slur on our enviable democratic credentials and totally eroded the credibility and integrity of our once revered Electoral Commission,” a statement issued by the NDC said.
These issues, the party said, portend grave danger for Ghana’s fledgling democracy hence the need for investigation to address and salvage the fast-sinking electoral system.
Mr. Mahama has variously raised concerns about the conduct of the 2020 election on his ‘Thank you tour’, to which the EC organized a press to respond.
The Commission denied all allegations of fraud and called on the police to investigate the claims of fraud by the former President.
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