Major Osahene Boakye Gyan (rtd) is warning of impending doom should the Electoral Commission connive with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to rig the upcoming December polls.
The former military officer accused the EC of gradually leading the country into a civil war with its bull-headedness, particularly regarding the decision to compile a new voters register.
Cooked Figures
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Programme, Osahene Boakye Gyan claimed the EC, having a desire to rig the 2020 elections with the tacit assistance of the ruling NPP, is hell-bent on having a new register.
"This party (NPP) won power with the biggest electoral margin; so what has gone wrong?...this morning, i overheard an NPP activist on radio claiming if elections are held today, Nana Addo will be re-elected with some one million, three hundred thousand votes difference. See, the NPP has cooked up the figures already, they are simply looking for the means to legitimize their rigging by undertaking a registration exercise (through the EC)....," he alleged.
If They Want Civil War, They Will Get It!
The fomer military capo strongly held that the country can go to the polls this year without resort to putting together a new register as was done in 2016.
Sounding a note of caution, he pointed out that most electoral disputes in Africa have resulted in civil wars and Ghana is not immune to it, and warned that "should the EC continue to toe the line of their paymasters, it will certainly spell doom for this country."
" . . it is political motivation that led to the dismissal of Madam Jean Mensah as the EC Chairperson by the current administration. They want to beef up the numbers so they can win simply because they don't have confidence in their winning numbers, otherwise they won't tamper with it...But more importantly...post-independence Africa, all crises and civil wars have been on the back of disputed electoral results. What they are doing now, they are driving us into a civil war and if they want it, they will get it," he screamed.
Plans Far Advanced For NVR
In a related developmrnt, the EC says it will observe all the necessary safety measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus when it begins compiling a new register of voters.
“All stakeholders are hereby reminded that plans are far advanced for the compilation of a new voter register with a new voter management system for the upcoming 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections,” the EC said in a statement on Monday, 11 May 2020 signed by Acting Public Affairs Director Sylvia Annor.
The Commission said it is “sensitive to the current state of affairs due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will abide by the necessary precautions and safety protocols in the execution of its mandate when it deems it appropriate to begin the compilation of the register”.
The exercise had been scheduled to start in April but has been put on ice indefinitely following the outbreak of Coronavirus in Ghana.
The EC's statement was in response to a comment passed by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, who castigated the Chair as running the election management body like an NGO.
Listen to him in the video below
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This man should have been a dead body by now. its only in Ghana where this irresponsible coup plotter would be allowed to be working around and displaying his hunger for blood.
LOOK AT WHAT THIS B.U.SH MAN IS CALLING FOR OR PREACHING. SO NANSENS, AN ELDERLY MAN LIKE YOU FULL OF CHOCKY MIND. NO ONE IS AFRAID BRING THAT CIVIL WAR IS YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WILL DIE. WE HAVE GROWN UP. Ofuii !
fooooolish old fuuuuull you will die like chicken, follow ndc and you will always disgrace your self
WHO GAVE THIS OLD PENSIONEER THE TITLE OSAHENE? BO-G-US AND US-E-LESS NAME;AT YOUR AGE ,LOOK AT YOU -YOU SHOULD BY NOW PREPARE YOUR GRAVE.austrian prime minister is just 31years old come over here and find for yourself the MIRACLES HE IS PERFORMING.
WHAT CIVIL WAR. COWARDS LIKE YOU TAKING ABOUT CIVIL WAR. YOU USED ***barred word*** FOR YOU R FAKE REVOLUTIONS AND YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE STILL BLIND TODAY. MANY GHANAIANS ARE SENSIBLE AND WOULD NOT FOLLOW YOUR EVIL SHALLOW MINDS FOR YOUR SELFISH ENDS.
BUT FOR HIS AGE, I WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING. A MAN SEEN AMONG HIS PEERS A BALL LESS COWARD FOUND COWERING UNDER THE BED OF HIS GIRLFRIEND BEHIND ACHIMOTA POLICE STATION DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE REVOLUTION. ESPECIALLY WHEN HE HAD SUPERVISED AND PLAYED PIVOTAL ROLES IN THE EXECUTION OF THE GENERALS THE THREE FORMER HEADS OF STATE BY FIRING SQUAD. BECAUSE LAZY AND COWARD JOURNALIST AND AT BEST UNINTELLIGENT JOURNALIST HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO AND CALL HIM TO ORDER REMINDING HIM OF THE INNOCENT BLOOD ON HIS HANDS, BOAKYE DJAN IS ENCOURAGED TO SPEW GA-R-BAGE. THOSE THAT CLAMOUR FOR WAR INCLUDING BOAKYE DJAN AND THE OTHER SEN$£LESS PEOPLE IN THE NDC THAT THEY SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT , SHOULD THEIR DREAMS REMOTELY COME TRUE, THEY WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE HUNTED DOWN AND BOAKYE DJAN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TUCK HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS AND RUN OFF TO UK OR EUROPE. AND I AM DAMN SERIOUS. COWARD OLD MAN.
How can compilation of electoral register drive this country into civic war? Do not worry when the civil war erupt, I know you will go and hide under the bed of your girl friend.
It's difficult to comprehend what would make a government team up with Electoral commission to orchestrate an elaborate plan to disenfranchise perceived supporters of its political opponent just to win election. If this is not evil then I don't know what an evil is. The Lord is disrupting the wicked plan, yet their hearts are hardened like that of the Biblical Pharao. There's somebody greater than all, when he speaks all would listen.
Oh mother Ghana what have we done to this old man to spew such one thing i have noticed in life is old age always associated with wisdom but look at this old man your grey hair is the crown of your shame but am not surprised because a War monger always thirsty for blood.
A reckless talk coming from a spent, reckless and frustrated old soldier. All the primaries he contested in the NDC sef he lost. We are in 2020, not 1979