The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has rejected accusations that it is selectively targeting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in its investigations into alleged vote buying, insisting that its actions are guided solely by law and evidence.
The Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the OSP, Sammy Darko, said the office’s decision to probe allegations linked to both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries and the NDC Ayawaso East parliamentary primary demonstrates its non-partisan approach.
Speaking in an interview on Monday, February 9, 2026, Mr Darko explained that the OSP’s public statement on the matter was not intended to single out any political party.
“This statement is not just about what happened at Ayawaso East or the NPP primaries. It is generally that we are reminding Ghanaians that vote buying and vote selling are prohibited by law and that we must refrain from it,” he said.
He noted that criticisms of the statement stemmed from a misunderstanding of its structure, stressing that the content addressed both political parties fairly.
“In the two paragraphs, you will understand the basis of what we are doing in both instances. So, I don’t understand how some people were reading the statement, because they said we have only one paragraph for the NPP, and the rest is for the NDC. It doesn’t add up,” Mr Darko stated.
According to him, the statement merely presented the cases in a sequential manner.
Mr Darko further disclosed that one individual received more attention in the statement due to an alleged assault on an OSP officer during the conduct of official duties at the election.
“We dedicated a little more to a particular candidate because that candidate had assaulted an OSP officer in the performance of this work during the election,” he added.
