Now you only have the option of going to court – NPP tells NDC

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Policy

Source: Kasapa FM

2020-12-23

The New Patriotic Party has defended Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah’s victory in the parliamentary race in the Techiman South constituency by calling on the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to go to court and question the results declared by the Election Commission.

At a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra, PNP campaign manager Peter Mac Manu insisted that the PNP parliamentary candidate won the election by 49,682 votes, while NDC parliamentary candidate Christopher Bayire , obtained 49,205 according to the pink leaves available. to them.

“Our candidate, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, was duly elected Techiman South deputy for the next parliament, from January 2021 to January 2025,” he told reporters.

This follows the minority group’s demand for an open compilation of Techiman South’s parliamentary results after it stormed the EC headquarters on Tuesday.

According to the minority leader Haruna Iddrisu, it is shocking that the media and civil society groups appear disinterested in their request for public collation of the results in Techiman Sur when something similar was done in Banda in the same area.

“At Techiman South, civil society and the media have argued that the NDC should go to court; my answer goes to court with what and for what? because we don’t even have declared results. It is only in the government of Nana Akufo-Addo that a candidate will contest an election and the results are declared in her absence, the results are certified in her absence. And the results, even so stated, give us a copy that we are in denial for two weeks since the election.

“We demand justice, when you say to go to court I must have something to walk and I must have the results to work in court, this is the greatest threat to the sustenance of our multi-party democracy. All we ask is respect for Ghana’s electoral laws, “Haruna Iddrisu told the media during a protest march at the electoral commission.”

But the NPP has said that Techiman South’s parliamentary results were not cooked figures, but were duly compiled and certified results published by the EC.

“The NDC had initially said there was no collation at Techiman South. Now they are asking for a new classification. If there was no collation in the first place, how can there be a new collation? But it is important to point out to the NDC that after the results have been collected and reported, the only remedy available to them if they disagree with the collected and reported results is to go to a court of competent jurisdiction. But as is obvious to the people of Ghana, the NDC is not ready to be subjected to strict testing. All they want to do is court the public discontent of the EC and thereby reduce the legitimacy of the NPP victory in the eyes of well-meaning Ghanaians. “

Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic National Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has accused President Akufo-Addo of colluding with the Electoral Commission (EC) to “fraudulently maintain the Techiman Sur seat” of the ruling PNP.

Therefore, he challenged the EC to come out and show Ghanaians its summary of results sheet and pink sheets for the Techiman South constituency to calm the latent tensions.