John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has charged that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Electoral Commission are plotting to rig the elections in December by using the ongoing voter transfer process as a springboard.
Mr. Mahama’s remarks come after the Election Commission (EC) decided against permitting political party representatives to watch the vote transfer process as it is now taking place.
Because of the violent altercations at some of the transfer centers, the European Commission has mandated that political party operatives are not permitted entry.
“The Electoral Commission’s decision not to allow agents of political parties to observe the ongoing voter transfer exercise points to only one reason— the EC’s avowed determination to aid the ruling NPP in stealing the outcome of the 2024 elections,” Mr alleged on his Facebook wall
“I am not surprised that the NPP and the EC quickly reversed a collective decision taken at an IPAC meeting last week to have political party agents present at the district offices for the transfer exercise.”
“The NPP knows and internally admits that it will lose the 2024 presidential elections. We also know that, as a last resort, it seeks to deploy gerrymandering during this voter transfer period to improve its chances in the parliamentary elections in the erroneous belief that it may rely on that to affect its presidential votes.”
“We have in our possession a long list of constituencies in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions and selected places in Greater Accra and other regions where the NPP is seeking to transfer thousands of voters from their strongholds to offset the NDC’s gains in constituencies we control,” he added.
