The National Democratic Congress in a press conference today has presented figures which indicate that the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Techiman South constituency, Christopher Baasongti Beyere won the seat polling a total of 50,306 votes.
Signaling a win as against the 50,013 votes polled by Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah of the New Patriotic Party, the party’s collation led by the deputy minority leader, James Avedzi summed up votes from all the 267 polling stations in the constituency per pink sheets in the party’s possession.
After completion of the party’s collation, Mr. Avedzi said “this is what we want the Electoral Commission to do. We have the pink sheets and these pink sheets were given to our party agents by the officials of the Electoral Commission. So bring your (EC) pink sheets, let’s compare what you have on your pink sheets [with] what we have and that of the other parties then we know that the pink sheets have not been changed. Then you collate like what we did here.”
The Minority Leader, Haruna Idrissu on his part said the figures prove that the declaration of Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah of the NPP as MP elect of the constituency is illegitimate and should be overturned.
Hon. Haruna Idrissu also stated that the NDC is calling for re-collation of votes from the constituency after which result from the re-collation will be accepted.
He further indicated that the rigging of the Techiman South parliamentary results in particular is a deliberate effort by the ruling NPP to snatch majority in parliament from them. This, he said the party will not concur.
“The NDC Minority is statistically accurate and we cannot be in denial, it can only be one of a perpetuated fraud of collusion between the ruling government and a compromised electoral commission. Nowhere in our fourth republic history have the electoral officers struggled to share declared results with candidates and with representatives of candidates.
“So the number speaks for itself. We know and we demand that a re-collation is done before 7th January.”
He then urged the media to take a look at the pink sheets in the party’s possession, with the hope that they “come and examine our pink sheets before we take them to our confidential archives.”
Earlier today, members of the minority caucus marched to the headquarters of the Electoral Commission to submit a petition to the Electoral Commissioner for a re-collation of the Techiman South 2020 parliamentary votes.
However, the minority members were met with a police barricade, preventing them from accessing the EC premise. After munites back and forth between the party and the police, some members of the caucus managed to get in but did not meet any ranking EC official to submit their petition to.
The Minority Leader expressed his disappointment in the EC for not making available any ranking member of the Commission to receive their petition.
He said “we will boycott the Electoral Commission coming forward in parliament. If we will not be heard by her (Electoral Commissioner), they will never be heard by us.”
