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General news for Monday, December 14, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-12-14
Former Member of Parliament for the Akwatia constituency Baba Jamal has revealed that the NDC broke into Techiman South to collect more data after the Election Commission declared Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah of the PNP the winner of the poll in the district. electoral.
According to him, the returning officer has not presented the party with a copy of the declaration form he used to declare the winner for the constituency, adding that none of the documents are with him.
Baba Jamal said in an interview on ‘Ade Akye Abia’ with Kwame Nkrumah Tikese that although the parties involved may not have been present at the declaration, they are entitled to a copy of the declaration form or summary sheets.
He said that these are clear evidence that the Electoral Commission is not transparent in the electoral process.
“The NDC embarked on a fact-finding mission in the Techiman South constituency. We went to the office of the Electoral Commission; We met with the teller and asked him if he had declared the results (of Techiman South) and he said that he had declared the results and we told him that it is okay if you have declared. So we demanded that we see the summary sheets that should be signed by all parties and he said that he would not give them to us. In fact, he said that he does not have it and we demand that he give us the form that he used to declare the results and insisted that he does not have it either and added that he took it to the regional office. This is against the law.
“If the results are genuine, why doesn’t the EC give the parties involved a copy of the documents they used to declare the results? Because we have a right to it. “He said
Some NDCs stormed Techiman South last week to demand the pink sheets that were used to declare Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah of the NPP as an elected deputy in the Bono region.
The NDC accuses the EC of manipulating the figures in favor of the ruling central
In a video seen by GhanaWeb, the president, who was being asked for the documents, refused, stating that he did not have the documents with him.
Some of the NDC executives who broke into the Election Commission office included; Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Attorney Baba Jamal, Collins Dauda, and Attorney Victor Adawudu.
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