The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has issued a strong warning to the Electoral Commission (EC), stating that it will not tolerate any attempts to rig the upcoming December 7 general elections.
Dr. Omane Boamah, the NDC’s Director of Elections, expressed concerns in a social media post about the EC’s refusal to allow a live broadcast of an upcoming meeting to discuss issues found in the provisional voters’ register.
He suggested that this refusal is part of a scheme to rig the elections in favor of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), a move the NDC intends to resist.
On Thursday, September 5, NDC General Secretary Fifi Fiavi Kwetey wrote to the EC, requesting permission for a live broadcast of the meeting to address discrepancies found during the voter exhibition exercise.
However, the EC rejected the request, arguing that such discrepancies are not uncommon and that broadcasting the engagement was unnecessary.
Omane Boamah claimed that the EC’s refusal is a deliberate attempt to “escape public scrutiny and forensic audit of the voters’ register!”
Below is Dr. Omane Boamah’s full post.
Why Should Electoral Commission of Ghana be Afraid of Live Coverage of Today’s Meeting with the NDC @ 2pm?
The Electoral Commission has refused to grant NDC’s request for live broadcast of our meeting with them today @ 2pm.
We disagree with the EC and I have communicated same to them.
This deliberate refusal flies in the face of Transparency: Transparency is cardinal to the attainment of Free, Fair and Peaceful elections.
The EC cannot escape public scrutiny and forensic audit of the voters register!
Meanwhile, we’ve all observed the LOUD SILENCE of the ruling NPP notwithstanding all these anomalies.
It cannot be lost on us that the NPP stands to benefit illegally from the overt and covert manipulation of the register and the electoral process.
Additionally, the palpable purchased silence from other previously loud-mouthed personalities and institutions that are supposed to call the EC to order is telling!
We are serving notice that the NDC will not tolerate the unfolding day light advance robbery/rigging of Election 2024 to materialise.
This being the case, at today’s meeting at the Corporate office of the EC near the National Cathedral, we shall also serve as the broadcast outlets in the meeting and after the meeting.
We shall not relent!
We shall not falter!!
We shall not rest!!!
