[ 2016-11-18 ]

NPP’s rigging claims ‘absurd nonsense’: Mahama
It is “absurd nonsense” for any political
party to claim that the Electoral Commission is on
a mission to rig the 2016 polls for the governing
National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John
Mahama has said.

Speaking to party supporters at Funsi in the Wa
East constituency of the Upper West Region, Mr
Mahama, who is the NDC’s flag bearer and is
seeking a second and final four-year term, said:
“Some of them have gone to the extent of saying
the Electoral Commission is preparing to rig the
elections for John Mahama. What absurd nonsense!

“Ghana’s electoral system is one of the best
in the world. Note my words – not in Africa, in
the world, because it has inherent instruments for
guaranteeing its integrity,” Mr Mahama said.

“If you noticed, in the run-up to the election,
there has been a consistent criticism of the
Electoral Commission. Indeed they have said the
most unspeakable things about the Chairman of the
Electoral Commission and that is all preparing the
minds of their supporters for when they lose. So,
when they lose, they can blame the Electoral
Commission as not being neutral.”

Mr Mahama on Tuesday, while meeting some leaders
of labour unions at the Flagstaff House, said the
constant criticisms hurled at the EC and its chair
Charlotte Osei is meant to “set the stage for
disputing elections when they have taken
place”.

“They have the same personnel working there and
I don’t see the reason why people say the
commission is biased, ‘the commission is trying
to rig the elections in favour of someone’ and
all [those] kinds of things,” he stated.

The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as
well as the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) on
different occasions have accused the EC of
scheming to rig the elections in favour of the
governing NDC.

But Mr Mahama insists that “our electoral
process has some of the best safeguards for
transparency in any electoral process in the
world”.

Source - Classfmonline

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