The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Nabdam constituency of the Upper East Region and the 2020 Party Parliamentary candidate for the governing New Patriotic Party Boniface Gambila has told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com that one of the reasons the NPP lost to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the December 7, election in the region, could also be as a result of the party avoiding those who suffered to bring the party to power. Speaking exclusively to Apexnewgh.com on December 17, 2020, said those who oppose the party during the 2016 general election were rather considered given job opportunities whereas those who suffered to bring the party to power were avoided and sidelined even though they equally have good and better qualifications to enable them to acquire same positions. He believes, these are some of the reasons the party lost massively in the Upper East Region which had resulted in Upper East losing the 3 seats the party already suffered for in 2016. “You are going to create jobs, after creating the jobs, those who fought for you, you didn’t put them in the job and you end up putting those opposing you onto the jobs. Meanwhile, those who fought for you and the party also have good qualifications, they are strong and very loyal to you and you leave them out of the jobs and those who fought because they also have qualifications even though some don’t really have better qualifications and yet because once you put one of them, he pulls the others. So, they have their various groups. These are real facts.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093.

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s communication team, Padmore Baffour Agyapong has said that he will willingly join the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s demonstrations for EC to overturn the election results if only the party is able to present evidence that the election was rigged in favour of the ruling NPP. In a panel discussion on the ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ show, he said: “If the NDC presents evidence that shows that the election was rigged, I will join the NDC to demonstrate. That is if they present evidence to convince me that the election was rigged for NPP. “Convince me with the data. But so far you have not given any evidence to convince me that the figures presented by the Electoral Commission were wrong. The EC has published all the sixteen regions’ results but which of the region has been contested by the NDC along with the pink sheets? That is how you convince people to go on the streets to demonstrate. But you don’t convince people to go on the street on the basis of ‘we are still looking into it but we have been cheated’ narrative”. Padmore was insistent that even if the NDC is able to present numbers different from that collated by the EC, it had to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the numbers they have are really the true numbers and not concocted. Last week, hundreds of supporters of the National Democratic Congress stormed the Electoral Commission’s head office demanding that the Commission declared John Mahama as the President-elect. But what started as a peaceful protest turned violent when the supporters blocked the Accra-Kanda section of the road and set lorry tyres ablaze. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications

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

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

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