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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Please will your family led the war? As a old man, I didn't expect such a comment from you.
The old adage says: A ***barred word*** WILL BE A ***barred word*** WHETHER HE GOES TO SCHOOL OR NOT. For all those suffering from jaundice, everything appears yellow. Boakye Djan should rather be careful, keep quite and enjoy his peace bestowed on him by JJR
***barred word***, ***barred word***, ***barred word*** Boakye Djan. At your age all that you think and dream of is Civil War. Anyway that has bee your stock in trade so i am not surprised.
Yes they will get it. We will also not seat down and watch them. We go match them boot for boot, and we are ready
When did the execution of a legitimate constitutional mandate lead to civil war if it was not the product of evil minds who believe the performance of that duty will deny them a right or benefit that, even, never existed? Let the blood-thirsty hoodlums start any dirty games, and they run and leave their slippers behind. Enough of the threats and intimidation from these draculas!
***barred word*** coward, don't worry you die first, you think we have forgotten our uncles and father you killed.
this oldman has not learnt anything apart from war as a soldier he will go to his grave singing war songs SOLDIERGRAZY
ALL THAT HE SAID IS TRUE!!! BUT THEN AGAIN, HEY! POLITICS RIGTHT
So now you and the confused NDC believe that elections can be stolen and not won at the polling stations? I sometimes feel sorry for this nation for having people of this character. Always chanting war songs and thinking of negatives. I am now convinced that the Charlotte Osei EC might have stolen for JDM that is why they are afraid that Jane Mensah might do same for Nana
Really......It is very sad to listen and read comments by this elderly man. The biggest problem we have in Ghana is intolerance by certain people who feel they should 1) always lead Ghana and fill all the position in government and government agencies not excluding the military with their tribesmen 2) always be the at the top of national governance because of a feeling of superiority and perfectionist myth 3) create an agenda to always have their tribesmen rule this country forever and suppress other persons from other tribes. A clear example of point 3 above is the creation of a parallel so called COVID-19 advisory team in a country that is fighting the novel pandemic. It is sad that such persons always feel they are the best and should always be at the top. As if to say, "without us in the boat, then nothing good can happen". Why will a group of people be so uneasy in opposition after three years? Not until this feeling of "my tribesmen and I are the only people born to rule" ends we shall continually have issues. No civil war will occur in Ghana. Do you think you are more human than those who waited for eight years during your rule?