Press Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Iddi Muhayu-deen, has described as blatant falsehood claims that General Secretary of the party had stated the NPP had to resort to other means to win back some seats because Parliament had gone in favour of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to him, at no point did Mr. John Boadu make any suggestion or announcement to that effect as being claimed by the Speaker of Parliament, the Hon. Rt. Hon. Alban S.K. Bagbin.
Records, he said, show that in all the post-election press conferences and media engagements, the NPP through its General Secretary and other leading members had always maintained it had won majority of the Parliamentary seats.
Alhaji Muhayu-deen stated these in a statement responding to a Ghanaweb publication that said
Speaker Alban Bagbin had claimed the NPP snatched Parliamentary seats.
The General Secretary, he said, had originally taken the view that this outlandish and preposterous claim did not deserve the dignity of a response.
However, he reconsidered, having in mind the revered position of the person making the claim, coupled with the fact that he was speaking to an international delegation, hence the response.
The Speaker reportedly told a delegation of the Ethiopian Parliament, the Ethiopian Political Parties Joint Council (EPPJC), on Wednesday, August 12, 2021, that John Boadu was on record to have admitted that Parliament had gone in favor of the opposition NDC, and so, the NPP had to resort to other means to win back some seats.
“They would have had a minority in parliament with a president. Their General Secretary even announced it, but they, last-minute, made some movements and some seats were snatched. That one is a statement of fact”, Bagbin was reported to have said.
The Press Secretary noted that Mr. John Boadu at one of such press conferences to respond to the NDC’s false and absurd claim that they had won majority seats, and so, it necessarily meant that, the party ought to be declared as winners of the 2020 presidential elections, pointed out that it was possible for a party to win more seats in parliament and yet lose the presidential elections.
He said, “The phenomenon of “skirt and blouse voting”, which has become a regular feature in our general elections, makes nonsense of the NDC’s proposition.”
“The General Secretary, in analyzing the 2020 elections results, cited the case of the Central Region, where even though, the NPP won only 10 out of the 23 Parliamentary Seats, Candidate Nana Akufo-Addo won in 19 constituencies.”
“In other words, the NDC only won 4 constituencies in the presidential elections even though they won majority seats in the region.”
According to him, the General Secretary equally made mention of Akwatia, Jomoro and some other constituencies in the country where the NPP lost the parliamentary but won the presidential.
“As to how Alban Bagbin and the NDC would interpret this analysis, which was based on facts and data at the time, to mean that Mr. John Boadu was conceding that the NPP had lost the nationwide parliamentary elections to the NDC, can only be a monumental defiance of logic,” he said.
The Press Secretary questioned whether the two main political parties are not in court challenging one parliamentary election results or another.
And questioned whether the NDC is also not resorting to unorthodox means to seek to illegally overturn the Parliamentary results in those constituencies they are challenging.
Mr. John Boadu, he said, made no such suggestion or announcement as claimed by the Speaker of Parliament.
He advised Speaker Alban Bagbin to rise above petty partisanship and entreated the public to treat this unsubstantiated claim with all the disdain it deserves.
Source: MyPublisher24.com