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Following the report from the Electoral Commission (EC) that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are among 19 other political parties that could not meet the its deadline for the submission of their audited financial accounts, the Director of Elections for NPP says something might have gone wrong.

Mr. Martin Adjei Mensah-Korsah explained the Treasury Department of his political party [NPP] was seriously working on the party’s financial report as at last week, believing something might have happened to delay in the submission of the audited account.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show to put up a defense for his party, Adjei Mensah-Korsah bemoaned “it is regrettable” that his party could not file the financial report as the NPP has constantly been filing its audited account yearly to the EC.

“This is something we have been doing every year and last year, we submitted it before the deadline. I am now going to look for explanation for the delay as to why they could not submit the report, or maybe they have not finished”, he asserted.

He added there is obviously no excuse for his party not to have kept to the deadline as they have all decided to comply with the law, conceding on that aspect saying that all political parties must take that law serious.

As of the close of last Tuesday, only seven political parties out of the 26 so far registered by the election management body had complied with the directive for all political parties to present their financial accounts for scrutiny.