NDC to contest 5 parliamentary results in court
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hinted that it will in the next few weeks use legitimate means to contest the parliamentary results of five constituencies. According to the party, results for Techiman South, Sefwi Wiawso, Zabzugu, Tarkwa Nsuem and Essikado Ketan were illegally declared in favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story on Thursday, a member of the NDC legal team, Baba Jamal Mohammed Ahmed noted that some anomalies have been detected in the various constituencies, therefore, will use the judiciary to overturn the results. “We have not still accepted the final result of Techiman South because we insist that there was no collation at Techiman South and for that matter declaration that was done was not legal.” “We are also contesting Zabzugu, where a secret declaration was done by the EC at a location that the NDC did not have its people,” he explained. He then added, “Sefwi Wiawso, Tarkwa Nsuaem and Essikado Ketan are all seats we are going to contest.” This comes after the outstanding parliamentary seat was finally collated and declared in favour of the NDC. For Mr Mohammed Ahmed, although the NDC has now attained 137 seats, per their pink sheets at the five indicated constituencies, they should have won those seats too. Thus, they will employ legal measures and challenge the outcome declared by the Electoral Commission. On his part, the MP for the Okere constituency, Dan Botwe said the New Patriotic Party will also contest the parliamentary results of the Banda and Savelugu constituencies. The Herald Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
How can we go to court when the ‘tyrant’ is blocking our means? – Asiedu Nketia
The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said the means by which the party will go to court to challenge the results of the presidential and parliament elections are being blocked. He told TV3’s Komla Klutse in an interview that the party is being denied access to some pink sheets, the primary documents upon which the election results were declared, to enable them put their case together for possible court action. “We have to secure the means of going to court. Even the means of going to court and having the chance of winning is still being blocked by the tyrant.” “So why do you want to go to court when the person who knows that when you go to court you will need A, B, C and so we are blocking your means of getting there so that you cannot go to court. And then sycophants will be sitting outside and shouting go to court.” “If we have to go to court about Techiman, we can only go to court to challenge the results of Techiman as declared. We are being denied even the opportunity of sighting what results were declared when the law gives us an entitlement to a copy,” he said. The main opposition party has been urged to resort the court to address its disagreements with the results of the elections. For instance, US Ambassador Stephanie S. Sullivan met with former President John Dramani Mahama who was the presidential candidate for the NDC barely a week after he rejected results The US Ambassador also met Mr Mahama’s running mate in the elections, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, at the meeting on Thursday, December 17. They “discussed the recent elections”. The US envoy is said to have urged not only the 2020 Presidential Candidate and Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) but also all political parties “to pursue legal channels for any electoral disputes and to preserve the peace in Ghana”. Since Mr Mahama’s official rejection of the election results, which declared incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as winner, his supporters have held scattered demonstrations across the country. On Thursday after a group of supporters demonstrated near the headquarters of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), 26 of them were arrested by the police. 3 Nwes Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
Election 2020: Sammy Gyamfi presents evidence of electoral fraud
Sammy Gyamfi, the Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress has presented to the general public evidence of electoral fraud in the just-ended December 7 elections, which his party has gathered so far. He maintained that the 2020 presidential election results declared by Jean Mensa, the Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, is a ‘stolen verdict’ for the incumbent president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, hence his party’s rejection of the declared results. Gyamfi, at a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra, claimed some evidence gathered by the party so far has established the point that the Jean Mensa-led EC at some polling stations decided to reduce the votes of the NDC candidate, John Dramani Mahama, and added more figures to the votes of candidate Akufo-Addo. He indicated that what the party has detected in their audit of the pink sheets is “naked thievery”. Sammy Gyamfi cited an example thus, “So Sunyani West SDA Primary School, Chiraa 1 Polling Station, the number of voters on the voter’s register is 49. Total ballots allocated to the polling station by the EC per the constituency ballot statistics document they themselves gave political parties is 60.” “Yet, the total votes cast at the polling station is 466 as recorded on the face of the pink sheet. If this is not evidence of electoral fraud, then what is it?” he questioned. “Mind you, this is just one out of the thousands of cases of over-voting we have uncovered through our painstaking audit of pink sheets,” he added. Sammy Gyamfi averred, “right from the onset, it was clear that the NPP was given an illegal advantage to cheat by the Electoral Commission. They have been given official ballot papers which were security materials, stamped with the EC’s validation stamp…” Sammy Gyamfi stressed that the NDC have “all the pink sheets and at the right time, we are going to make our findings public”. The EC within 48 hours of voting on Wednesday, December 9, declared the incumbent President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the president-elect of Ghana, but has changed its figures several times, all of which point to a run-off election, yet the EC claims its wrongful addition of figures and calculation of percentages are correct. For example, the EC on Thursday, December 10, issued a statement admitting an error saying its Chairperson, “inadvertently used 13,433,573 as the total valid votes cast”. “The total valid votes cast is 13,119,460. This does not change the percentages stated for each candidate and the declaration made by the Chairperson.” John Dramani Mahama, who led the NDC into the 2020 elections, at a press conference after the EC declared President Akufo-Addo the winner of the presidential race, described the results as ‘flawed and fictionalised.’ Mahama averred that data available to his party from across all the 16 regions of Ghana showed that he had won the 2020 presidential election, insisting that any other pronouncement by the EC was evidence of manipulation of figures. He, therefore, rejected the outcome of the presidential election. Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
NDC protesters clash with police at EC Headquarters
Persons believed to be supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have clashed with police at the headquarters of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) following a protest by the former. Sympathizers of the NDC have since the declaration of the results for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections been staging a series of demonstrations in protest of what they describe a “stolen verdict” for President Akufo-Addo. The latest of such demonstrations saw hundreds of party supporters clad in red and black attires, wielding sticks and placards heading to the Electoral Commission in Accra. A video sighted by 3news.com shows the police using waters cannons to disperse the crowd which seemed resistant. 3News Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
The group calling for my resignation does not exist, i worked so hard- UER NPP CHAIRMAN
The Upper East Region Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Lawyer Anthony Namoo has responded to the group calling for his resignation over what they described as abysmal performance the Upper East Region have witnessed under his leadership in the 2020 elections. Speaking to Apexnewsgh.com, the Chairman said the group does not exist. According to him the party and its executives worked so hard to ensuring that their targets were met and unfortunately, they could not achieve their targets, adding that, it does not mean they did not work as the Group suggesting. According to the group, “Unfortunately, the region was headed for a record worst performance. The region was to lose all its 3 seats and decrease its share of the Presidential votes to about 32%. The region was to suffer from leadership paralysis. A leadership that provided no direction to achieving any of its own set targets,” a group called Patriotic Movement for Growth said this in their earlier statement. However, Chairman Namoo believes, this is the time for them to examine what went wrong and it is when that examination is done and it’s clear that the regional chairman and his executives did not do the right thing. then, a blame can come but not haven’t done that not haven’t contributed anything to the party, only for them to mushroom and just sprout just recently to come be blaming people. Then, it is unfortunate. Lawyer Namoo added that due to his hard work as a regional chairman, he closed his office and worked and did not go to court for the period because he believed that there is the need to invest time in the party. “Though the target we set for ourselves we couldn’t achieve it, that does not mean we didn’t work hard. I had to collapse my office and virtually did not go to court. I had to make sure that we led the campaign and we did the best that we can.” He told Apexnewsgh.com Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
JUST IN: NDC Withdraws Suit Against EC, Says It Has No Evidence To Pursue Techiman South Case
The National Democratic Congress(NDC) has withdrawn its suit against the Electoral Commission(EC) concerning Techiman South parliamentary election results in the Bono East Region Until the morning of Monday, December 14, 2020, a Writ of Mandamus to compel the EC to re-collate and re-declare the results had been filed at the court. The NDC in a series of press conferences last week, made several claims only to be hit by recorded video evidence of Collation and declaration. The party this morning ran back to the Sunyani High Court to withdraw the case. It is not clear what’s next for them. After the declaration of Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah as the MP-elect for the constituency the NDC and its candidate led blistering attacks on electoral officers, security personnel, and some media men who were also not spared instead resorted to violence and intimidation. Speaking to the development on Accra- Fm, a member of the NDC legal team Baba Jamal revealed that the latest decision by the party was as a result of the fact that they do not have evidence to challenge the case in court. “They started with the collation and stopped when the confusion started so we were unable to sign the documents but the Returning Officers said he reached out to us but we were not around. And we said fine just give us a copy of it whether we signed or not but he refused. Do you think it is with good intention we were refused documents? “You don’t go to court empty-handed. We go with the evidence, we don’t have a summary sheet, declaration form and we don’t know what happened. How do we protest the results in court? Because we don’t have any evidence against the results?” He added. Mynewsgh Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
JUST IN BONGO: I am willing and ready to work with whoever is appointed DCE in….
The Member of Parliament for Bongo Constituency Edward Bawa has told Apexnewsgh.com that he is ever willing and ready to work with whoever is appointed the District Chief Executive (DCE) in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region for the development of the area. However, from the tone and body language of the lawmaker when speaking to Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com he pointed that it has been difficult working with the current District Chief Executive who contested him closely in the just ended December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections “Whoever becomes the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Bongo whether NDC or NPP depending on all the crisis they are going through now, i would genuinely want to work with the person to develop Bongo, because i believes that with togetherness, we can make Bongo a better place.” According to Mr. Bawa, peace is paramount and without peace, the people of Bongo will not see any development in the constituency. He said, aside from peace, during their campaigns across the constituency, what he realized was that people need development and it does not matter the party these people belong to, because they are all Bongo citizens. He told Apexnewsgh.com that is one area he would like to focus on in moving forward as an elected Member of Parliament. “I think the most important thing is to have peace because without peace nothing good will happen. In the course of the campaign we did, we realized that there are a lot of people who need development, is not about who belongs to which political party but they really need development and is one area I would like work on.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
UER: NDC Squeezed my hands at my back and took the victory away from me
The Bongo Constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate for just ended December 7, elections who doubles as the Bongo District Chief Executive(DCE) Ayinbisa Peter has told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com in an exclusive interview that the National Democratic Congress party bigwigs succeeded by squeezing his hands by him and took his victory away. “I think, I set out to win the elections for the first time to make history for my party in that constituency. I think right from 2019 when we finished the primaries, I started campaigning, I used almost 6 months effectively campaigning day and night and everything was on course and I was securing victory for myself and for the party, until the last 2weeks when something strange happened and what happened was that the Member of Parliament upon realizing that he was at the verge of losing the seat, went and met former President John Dramani Mahama and asked him to invite all former appointees coming from the Bongo enclave to come home and support him. Indeed, they met in Accra and he kneeled down and pleaded with them to come and support him. So, all of them, about 2weeks to the election they came home, about 10 prominent former appointees of the past government came home to campaign for him.” He spoke “So, imagine how former Ministers, former chief director, former chairmen, former Parliamentary candidate, ranging from Professor Avea, Hon. Albert Abongo, Lawyer Bawah Dua, Simon Alangde, Alexis Adugdoo, Dr. Atinga, Dr. Rainer Akumperigya, Mr, Aluzeeri and Thomas, Accountant, Ghana Maritime Authority coming home extending resources in every community. Wherever I went and gave Ghc 500.00, Profession Thomas Akabzaa went and gave Ghc1000, Ghc1200 and Ghc1500 not that they came home only with the resources, they came and started intimidating the young men and women, they started insulting and inviting them to their houses telling them they are not fighting for Edward Bawa, they are fighting for the party. So, all of them should team up and work for their party. So definitely, some of them admitted that if I get the seat, it will take the NDC so many years to come back because they know am a developmental oriented person, they know my human relation, so, it will be difficult for them to come back.” He stated “So, is better they fight the horse and when they get home, they can blame the cork (instead of fighting themselves outside). So, they quizzed my hands by me and took the victory away from me.” He lamented “But I am not perturbed, I am going to do my work again, I am going to organize a meeting and do some introspection and find out what the real issues were.” He told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com Meanwhile Edward Bawa won the Bongo Parliamentary constituency by polling 26, 276 votes, as Peter Ayinbisa of the New Patriotic Party manage 17,276 votes. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
BONGO: I even show Ayinbisa his smoothness level at his own… –Edward Bawa
The Member of Parliament for Bongo Constituency Edward Bawa has told Apexnewsgh.com that beating his main contender Peter Ayinbisa of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with almost 10,000 votes at the just ended December 7, 2020 elections, was the biggest victory the NDC has gotten since the 1992 elections. You see I told him earlier that, is not a question of coming to sit on the radio talking big. Indeed, if you want to look at an election since 1992, is one of the biggest victories NDC has gotten in Bongo and I beat him with almost 10,000 votes, this was someone who was going around talking to people and telling them he is picking up the seat. According to Mr. Bawa, he showed his contender Peter Ayinbisa who doubles as the Bongo District Chief Executive (DCE) smooth less level even after taking advantage of all the media houses claiming 500 people defected from NDC to NPP in Lugho which he said the information was false. However, Mr, Bawa said after all false claims, channel out by his contender, he went ahead beat him in his own zone winning 9 polling stations out of 10. “I beat him in his own zone, out of 10 polling stations, I won 9. Even his own polling station where he voted, he beats me with only 4 votes. Some time ago, he went and was touting that 500 people have defected to NPP at Lugho electoral area which was a fallacy. I went to his village, organized a rally. But in his village, Peter could not even organize a big rally. I organized on the 4th and he wanted to organize on the 5th but he couldn’t get people to come out.” Meanwhile Edward won the Bongo Parliamentary constituency with ease by gaining 26, 276 votes, as his close contender Peter Ayinbisa of the New Patriotic Party struggle to get 17,276. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
JUST IN: Here are the three options the NDC are likely take…
The Member of Parliament for Tamale Central and the former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Inusah Fuseini has told Apexnewsgh.com in an exclusive interview that the NDC likely to call for arbitration or form a parallel government. According to the experienced lawmaker, it is clear that the NDC won the December 7 election, the reason why the former President John Dramani Mahama who happened to be their party flag bearer in just ended December 7 election said, that they will not accept the results of the 2020 general election. According to the NDC, the results which were declared by the EC chairperson are fictionalized and that cannot be accepted. But speaking to Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com, in an exclusive interview on Friday, November 11, 2020, Mr. Fuseini who is the outgoing Member of Parliament for Tamale Central said the impunity of the NPP government must stop. “If we don’t fight this one, it will destroy the beauty of our democracy. We are likely to see NDC in court, we are likely to see NDC call for arbitration, we are even likely to see NDC form a parallel government because we are convinced that we won the election.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications