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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by its Election 2020 Campaign Manager, Peter Mac Manu, has responded to a series of issues raised by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at a press confernce held earlier today.
According to the NDC Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the NPP set up a machinery to rig the 2020 election immediately they took office in 2017.
EC, NIA In Cahoots With NPP
He alleges the Electoral Commission (EC) and National Identification Authority are conspiring to suppress votes in the strongholds of the opposition party.
At a press conference Thursday afternoon, the NDC National Chairman claimed the EC's decision to push for the Ghana Card, birth certificate and Passport as the primary documents required to register during the voters’ registration exercise is part of a grand scheme to rig the 2020 elections in favour of the governing NPP.
Wondering why the EC would like to ignore the voter ID which he said is the most credible document of identity in the country and rather opt for the use of birth certificates, he accused the NIA of increasing the number of registration centres in the Ashanti region while keeping few in the strongholds of the NDC as part of the voter suppression agenda.
“The President seeing defeat staring glaringly at him, he is in conjunction with the Jean Mensa led EC and the Ken Attafuah led NIA desperately scheming to rig the 2020 elections and hold on to power at all cost.
“Not even the unusual circumstances we find ourselves in which requires that we pull together for our collective survival as a nation are enough to deter the actors of this plot from their ungodly act,” he asserted.
NDC Lacks A Credible Candidate
But in response, the NPP Campaign Manager, speaking at a news conference held moments after the one organised by their political rivals, said "Ghanaians know better".
"The plan of NDC is nothing more than to fabricate grounds for chaos, disunity and fear. They are doing this because they don't have a good candidate and a good story to tell the voters in December. It is that record of a rigged leadership under John Dramani Mahama that the NDC must be afraid of bringging back to face the Ghanaian people for their vote, and not the fake conspiracy to rig elections against them," he shot back.
He said it was not the fault of Ghanaians, and for that matter the ruling party, that the NDC chose to bring back Mr Mahama as their Presidential candidate for the 2020 elections; the very man under whose leadership the NDC suffered its biggest electoral defeat.
"It is not the fault of NPP that the NDC chose to bring back as their 2020 Presidential candidate the very same man who gave Ghana the worst economic growth performance since 1994," he added.
Achievements Will Do The Talking
He reitirated that the NPP does not need the Electoral Commisson (EC) to rig an election in their favour looking at their numerous achievemments.
"A government that has put 1.3m children to school who if NDC was in power would be on the streets does not need an election to rigged in its favour, a government that has restored industries and is creating jobs for the people does not need an election to be rigged in its favour, a government that has put 100,000 unemployed graduates to work does not need an election to be rigged in its favour . . ." he said at the press conference in Accra on Thursday.
Inevitable Defeat
Peter Mac-Manu further indicated that the NPP intends to fight hard and cleanly to win the 2020 elections based on its performance in government since it took office in 2017.
"....the NDC's impendinng defeat in December 2020 is inevitable," he added.
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THE NDC IS ONLY CRYING WOLF IN PREPARATION FOR AN EVIL AGENDA. THEY HAVE THEIR
If you are so sure of your victory why are you then in cahoot with the EC to rig the elections? What have you seen thats making you shy away from the same register that brought you to power in 2016,which you claim you won with over 1 million votes...so why are shying away from the same old register....***barred word***
Well we are not going to fly on Airbus with an incompetent pilot 👩✈️ through dumso to imf anymore when babies 👶 with sharp teeth 🦷 are on board and land us on Woyomey’s backyard. I know there could be FORD EXPEDITION to take us by land but we would have preferred bus 🚌 branding driven by Ativor in the middle of Berko power bribery crisis which agitated by Government official 1 so I decree like the Jews said never again to ndc. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
Come December some people will be laughing at the wrong side of their mouth . I convinced my entire family to vote for nana addo and the NPP, i have regretted my actions and will never repeat that mistake gain. We will give you jobs.... for their family members alone. NAPCo is not a job thats why it does pay Social security. We will not borrow ... but have borrowed so much than all governments put together with their 132 ministers.... what a shame. i will not vote at allllllll.
i voted for the NPP and have regreted, they are liars, apart from the Free SHS, all the other promises they made has failed, even the Free SHS is a disaster. i dont have to give you a reason, l am thinking about how workers all over are being laid off, how people cant afford 3 square meals a day. If the NDC hasnt done anything at all, things were far better under Mahama than what l have seen in the past 3 years.
Then leave the register which brought you to power alone.
NPP hallucinating". Thinking we are still in the 2016 election mode. If they knew the tsunami, eruption, explosion and insurrection coming their way, they would have declared Mahama winner well ahead of time. Bring it on Mac Manu the campaign manager who doesn't even know his Presidential Candidate; let alone his running mate and the parliamentary candidates. The anger of the people will manifest on Dec. 7 No wonder we no longer hear of free SHS, 1D1F and 1V1F. Time will soon tell.
Nana Damoah please give me just one reason why I should vote for NDC.
Eish npp who are u deceiving who will vote for u this guys take Ghanaians for granted but they will be laughing at the wrong side of their mouths after 7 December wat levels of arrogance is this we shall see after 7 December
JM has disgraced Ghana. Tiefman ex prez making headlines in the uk for corruption. Ndc must change him fast. Corrupt party full of tieves.