A Deputy Director of Communication for the NPP, Yaw Preko has summarised ex-President Dramani Mahama’s interview on Voice of America (VOA) as trivial and full of deceit.
According to him, the party is just throwing tantrums and claiming the election was rigged when they have no evidence to back such an assertion.
The opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC) has refused to acknowledge the results of the just ended December 7 polls. After the Electoral Commission declared President Akufo-Addo President-elect on Wednesday 9th December, the NDC has contested the election insisting it was rigged.
Yaw Preko reacting to an interview the NDC’s flag bearer, John Dramani Mahama granted on VOA on the alleged election rigging said, “This claim of election rigging started with Asiedu Nketia at the early stages of the election. This was even before the results were declared and the EC had not even collated the results. How do you know you won the election or it was rigged when the results were not even out. We should be serious in this country”.
He maintained that now that the results have been collated and declared, the NDC should take the case to court if their claims are really true.
“When the NDC was asked when they would pick up the issue in court, they said it was too soon as they had no credible collated results. So what is stopping them now that they have all the results?” he asked.
The politician reiterated that the NDC still has no data to support their claims and advised Ghanaians not to allow the party play on their emotions.
Yaw Preko made known that after the 2012 general elections the NPP was told elections were won at the polling station and “we have ever since been vibrant”.
“We put a system in place a system that was supposed to tell us our results in 8 hours. We had a clear picture of where we were headed even before the poll was closed”, he stated.
The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) flagbearer at the just ended December 7 elections, John Mahama, says he is ready to accept defeat and acknowledge President Akufo-Addo as President-elect of the 2020 general election.
In an interview on VOA, the former president said he will only do so on the condition that the Electoral Commission (EC) will allow the NDC to take an independent audit of the election results for closure.
By: Joel Sanco
