Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has accused the government of trying to reduce their parliamentary seats won in the various regions.
Addressing the media at a press conference today,9th December, 2020 at the Accra International Conference Centre, he intimated that, the Akufo-Addo led government is using military personnel to oppress voters in constituencies the opposition National Democratic Congress won and is also trying to subvert the will of Ghanaians in five out of 140 constituencies where it won the parliamentary election.
“There are attempts by the NPP government, led by Akufo-Addo, to shamefully attempt to subvert the sovereign rule of the Ghanaian people and even reduce our parliamentary numbers by five, targeting, Tarkwa, Upper Denkyira West, Sefwi Wiawso, Sene West and Techiman South.
“In Upper Denkyira West, even after collation and reconciliation, it is the NDC that won the seat there. They have threatened the Electoral Officer, saying that they will eliminate and kill him if he so declares the results in favour of the NDC.”
The nation especially the two major political parties the NPP and the NDC, are currently in a heated debate as to which party won majority seats in Parliament as the nation awaits the Electoral Commission to declare the results of the 2020 polls.
In light of this, the opposition NDC is insisting that it has won 140 parliamentary seats thus controlling the next Parliament but the ruling NPP has also disputed that claim.
Meanwhile, supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are still massing up at the various regional offices of the Electoral Commission, demanding a declaration of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary election following the NDC’s concerns about the results.
As the military and police personnel are also trying to maintain the calm, the number of supporters keep increasing at the Electoral Commission’s headquarters in Accra.
The Director of Operations of the NDC’s 2020 campaign, Larry Gbevlo Lartey indicated that the party will not give room for the EC to tamper with the results adding that, the party will “abhor anything that seeks to undermine the transparency and credibility of the polls.”
Speaking on the delay, the EC has apologized for failing to live up to its pledge to, within 24 hours, declare the results of the 2020 parliamentary and presidential election.
Chairperson of the Commission, Madam Jean Mensah says her inability to deliver the results within 24 hours as scheduled was due to events she had no control over.
Earlier, the Commission had said it had introduced more efficient measures which will facilitate the declaration of election results within 24 hours because, in this year’s polls, the National Collation Centre in Accra is only receiving collated presidential election results from 16 regions as opposed to results from 275 constituencies as has been the case in the past.
