The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has stated that President Nana Akufo-Addo is aware that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will lose the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
The former president claimed that the president’s recent statement that he will hand over power to whoever wins is an admission that the NPP will lose.
He said this during a campaign rally in Biakoye, Oti Region, on Monday, November 4, 2024, as part of his nationwide tour to gain voter support.
Mr. Mahama cited Akufo-Addo’s recent commitment to a peaceful transition, in which the President promised Ghanaians that he would hand over power to whoever wins the election.
“The reason you must vote for the NDC is that we will go after all who have stolen from the public purse. Dr Bawumia cannot hold them accountable. That was why he said he would not hand over power to me.
“But recently, I heard him say he will hand over power to whoever wins. It is just because he knows that the NPP is about to lose the election. He knows that John Dramani Mahama is coming back to the Jubilee House.”
In a related development, the former president says they will resist any attempt by the NPP to rig the elections.
He accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of printing extra ballots during the 2020 election, alleging that the surplus ballot papers were distributed to agents of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and doing the same this year.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Sagnarigu, John Dramani Mahama he said: “This election, we are going to make sure that it is transparent and fair. In the past, we have always trusted that everybody who is a stakeholder in the election will behave in a neutral and non-partisan manner. But it doesn’t always work. In 2020, when we went to supervise the printing of the ballot papers after we had finished, we packed them, signed them, and our agents left the printing press. After, they started printing ballots, and some of these papers found their way into the hands of the NPP.
“On election day, we caught NPP agents with ballot papers in their hands. We reported them to the police, but nothing happened. So, for these elections, we are not taking any chances. Just yesterday, one of our election supervisors went to one of the printing houses, and an NPP person came there and wanted to assault him.
“We know that when they finish printing the rest of the papers, instead of shredding them in front of the agents, they keep them and hand them over to the NPP. Nobody is going to get hold of any extra ballot paper to go and dump them in the ballot boxes. This time, we are all going to be very vigilant,” he added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
