Demo would have been justified if EC failed to act on your evidence – NPP tells NDC

The governing NPP has slammed the NDC for its recently held “Enough is Enough” demonstration, asserting that the NDC is in to deceive its followers with baseless claims.

Addressing the press on Monday, NPP General Secretary Lawyer Justin Frimpong Kodua argued that the NDC has yet to provide the EC with detailed information regarding irregularities, discrepancies, or unauthorised entries in the provisional voters’ register, despite the NDC’s purported evidence comprising about 250,000 infractions.

“Many Ghanaians and the NPP cannot comprehend why the NDC has not submitted to the EC detailed information of its so-called irregularities, discrepancies, and unauthorised entries in the provisional voters’ register despite several appeals by the EC,” Kodua said.

“For instance, on page two of their petition to the EC, the NDC stated emphatically that they have uncovered evidence of 243,540 illegal transfers, 3,957 deleted names, as well as over 15,000 unidentified voter transfer cards in the provisional register. Yet 13 days after the NDC first met the EC on September 6, 2024, they have still not provided a single document to authenticate any of these allegations,” he added.

Kodua questioned why the NDC has not submitted evidence of the alleged illegal transfers to the Electoral Commission, if they have any.

“We believe strongly that the nationwide demonstration by the NDC would have been justified had the EC failed to act after receiving evidence from the NDC on the alleged irregularities and discrepancies,” he stressed.

The NPP General Secretary also argued that the NDC has a history of inciting their supporters to violence, referencing incidents that occurred following the 2020 elections.

According to him, the leadership of the party, upon losing elections, “urged their supporters to demonstrate on the streets and refrain from recognising President Akufo-Addo as the winner of the elections.”

“Their current National Chairman, who was at that time General Secretary of the Party, could not tell the Supreme Court the total votes that were amassed by the NDC and the total valid votes that were cast during the elections,” he said.