The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for dragging their flagbearer John Dramani Mahama into the “sins” of President Nana Akuffo-Addo.
The Campaign Spokesperson for the NDC, James Agyenim-Boateng said this is an attempt to demonise Mr Mahama after he criticized the NPP’s alleged ethnic bigotry and voter suppression agenda in the just-ended registration of voters.
He singled out John Boadu and the drafters of his statement which he presented at a press conference on Monday, that Mr. Mahama “cannot be blamed for the sins of the NPP and government during the registration of voters, especially in the strongholds of the NDC.”
According to Agyenim Boateng, former president Mahama has a duty to call out President Akufo-Addo and his government to order for their “divisive and ethnic bigotry in the run-up to, and during, the voter registration exercise.”
“It is trite knowledge, and video evidence abounds on social media, that heavily-armed uniformed personnel and in some cases NPP thugs operating under the cover of National Security, were deployed by the government to harass and intimidate eligible voters in the strongholds of the NDC, including the Volta and Oti Regions, as part of a grand agenda to disenfranchise the people and thereby suppress votes in those areas.”
He further stated that in some cases, eligible Ghanaians were physically prevented from registering simply because security forces and political actors who are not vested with powers to determine Ghanaian citizenship pronounced them non-Ghanaians.
“There are also many reports of people who were denied their right to register simply because they could not speak a particular language.
“We have also received reports of deliberate frustrations and impediments that were put in the way of settler communities, particularly in NPP strongholds, throughout the country to ensure that not many of them could get their names on the new voter register.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com