The Minority in Parliament has threatened to boycott the Electoral Commission’s (EC) next appearance before the house.
The decision by the opposition party follows their denial of meeting with the Electoral Commission Chairperson by police officers on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 in an effort to present a petition to Jean Mensa.
Collectively, the opposition MPs walked towards the headquarters of the Commission, at Ridge in Accra.
Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Leader, reading the details of the petition, revealed that, as a result of their petition being ignored, they will in a similar vein disregard the Electoral Chairperson when she appears before Parliament.
“We will boycott the EC coming forward in Parliament. We will boycott her and her Commission. We will not be heard, she will never be heard by us”.
According to him, Members of Parliament of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are still in contention of the declared results.
His assertion was premised on what he calls lack of transparency in the collation process of results in the Techiman South district.
“The results of the elections have been changed six times by an embarrassing Chairperson, so next time she comes to do her correction, we will not accept it. We are asking that the Techiman South results are collated openly in the full glare of the public”.
Earlier, the Tamale South MP has revealed the intention of the NDC to boycott the inauguration of President Akufo-Addo for a second term if a re-collation of the parliamentary results in Techiman South is not done.
Speaking in an interview, he said that the declaration of the seat in favor of the NPP’s Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah is fraudulent and as such will not countenance it.
“We are standing in denial by [the] collusion of fraud by the Electoral Commission and the NPP; It is not acceptable. You know they are just joking with Techiman South, add it to their number and claim a false 137 which they don’t deserve; they’re 136”.
Calling for an open collation of the result, he emphasized the party needs in getting the “Techiman South results before January 7, by all means necessary”.
“If Techiman South results is not resolved amicably and satisfactorily in accordance with the laws of Ghana and in particular with regulation 43 of CI 127 and more emphatically collation than openly and transparently by EC and we remain in denial that we don’t have the results for Techiman South we will be thinking through what to do on January 7”.
Additionally, he intimated that, they would only go to court if they are not pleased with the results.
“In this particular matter I have been denied the results so what am I going to court with? With tomatoes and then oranges?”
Meanwhile, the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Techiman South Christopher Baayire says the NDC won the seat by more than 700 votes, insisting that, a simple re-collation will reveal that NDC won.
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