The leader of the main opposition party has accused the electoral commission and the governing National Patriotic Party (NPP) of planning to rig the December general election.
The former president and leader of National Democratic Party (NDC) John Dramani Mahama says the “EC’s collusion with the NPP to rig the election will not work. They will fail!”
“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,” statement on Tuesday added.
This statement comes after Electoral Commission issued a directive to its Regional Directors, instructing them to inform District Directors that agents of political parties will not be allowed to observe the ongoing transfer of votes.
The NDC argues that this directive could potentially facilitate gerrymandering through unlawful voter transfers, undermining the integrity of the electoral process.
Founder and President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, also sides with the opposition party urging that political parties to disregard the directive.
He believes the EC cannot be trusted to conduct the process fairly without oversight from political parties.
He argued that the integrity of the vote transfer process could be compromised without proper monitoring.
Ghana will go polls on December 7, 2024, to choose president and parliamentarians.
Taking the centre stage in the upcoming election is economic hardships coupled with Cedi depreciation and high inflation.
