A Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Haruna Mohammed, has stated that the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to re-collate parliamentary results for some disputed constituencies must happen.
According to him, Ghana is not a banana republic and the law must therefore work.
Haruna said this on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen that the NPP is waiting on the Inspector General of Police(IGP) Dr George Akuffo Dampare to deploy security.
“I am not frustrated but the laws must work. The NDC have taken the laws into their hands and the security have thrown their hands in disarray.
“Somebody is put in charge of the election security taskforce. The IGP is the head and he is sleeping and snoring on his job. The court has given orders and consequential orders. So we are waiting on the IGP to deploy security. The collation must happen,” he stated.
Haruna further condemned the NDC youth who were involved in vandalizing election materials and burning pink sheets that had been securely stored in boxes, awaiting collation at various centres.
He questioned why the NDC will embark on such illegality despite their overwhelming victory in the election.
“The NPP are not cowards. We’re not afraid of them. Ghanaians have given them the power to lead so they should govern peacefully. We lost elections and came out to concede peacefully but why should the NDC go about creating chaos? What at all do they want?” he quizzed.
However, the NDC Deputy Director of IT and Elections, Dr Rashid Tanko Computer who also spoke on the same show, declared, “We won’t allow this kind of precedent to be set.”
At a news conference on Thursday, December 19, the EC Chairperson, Jean Mensa justified its decision and appealed to the government to offer it maximum security to complete the process.
There have been calls for the EC to allow persons in the constituencies where the results are being disputed to go to court as the law stipulates.
But the Commission insists the laid down processes for the collation and declaration were inconclusive, and therefore it is mandated to complete those processes.
Meanwhile, the High Court on Friday ordered the re-collation of the disputed results.
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