Mahama challenges the EC to make public the parliamentary results of Techiman South

Thursday, December 24, 2020 Policy

Source: My GH news

2020-12-24

Former President and Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has challenged the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to provide the people of Ghana with the results summary sheet and the pink sheets for the South Techiman constituency.

The NDC insists it won the Techiman South seat but the Election Commission stole the votes for the NPP.

Through the party’s members of Parliament, they openly collated the figures obtained by the NDC in the recently completed parliamentary elections in the constituency.

Since then, the Minority has submitted a petition to the Electoral Commission to request a new collation of the votes obtained by the parties involved in the elections.

Adding his voice to the NDC’s stance on the Techiman South constituency, the former president challenged the EC to provide the election results.

He said: “I want to reiterate our challenge to the EC, to come out and show Ghanaians your results summary sheet and pink sheets for the Techiman South constituency.”

In addition to appeals to the Electoral Commission to do the right thing, the former president also expressed shock at the fact that unarmed legislators were mistreated by security personnel under the orders of the country’s President.

He said that nobody expected something like this to happen in Ghana in the Fourth Republic.

Read Mahama’s statement below:

Tuesday was a sad day for Ghana’s democracy when minority members of Ghana’s Parliament were prevented from petitioning the Electoral Commission regarding the recent parliamentary elections in Techiman South. But let me congratulate the minority leader and the Caucus for taking a courageous step in defense of the democratic rights of Ghanaians.

The conduct of the Electoral Commission (EC), with the tacit support of the current president, Nana Akufo-Addo, using security personnel who act capriciously even towards parliamentarians, is not something that anyone could have imagined in our beloved country in the course of our 4th Republic. Clearly, the EC and its president are in collusion with Nana Akufo-Addo to fraudulently maintain Techiman South’s seat on the side of the nuclear power plant.

This is a clear subversion of the will of the people. I salute all those who have had the courage to call on the EC and the government of Nana Akufo-Addo in this blatant act of trampling on the democratic will of the people. I want to reiterate our challenge to the EC, to come out and show Ghanaians your Result Summary Sheet and pink sheets for the Techiman South constituency.