Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) insists his party has won majority of seats in the Parliamentary election.
According to John Dramani Mahama, his party won 140 parliamentary seats out of the 275 seats giving the NDC a working majority in the next parliament.
The former president, however, claimed that there have been attempts to use violence, threats on the lives of electoral officials and snatching of the ballot boxes to overturn their victory in 5 out of the 140 Constituencies in favor of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“When it comes to the parliamentary elections, the NDC has a working majority of one hundred and forty 140 seats. What has happened since, was a deliberate attempt, targeting five (5) of the 140 seats, to steal and, thus, subvert the people’s verdict,” he said at a press conference.
The said Constituencies, he claimed, include the Techiman South Constituency where he alleged the death of 3 people as result of gunshots fired by military personnel deployed to intimidate his party’s members in order to rig the election results.
Mr. Mahama also alleged that the Techiman South Constituency has been announced in favor of the NPP contrary to the EC’s pronouncement that the declared results excluded that particular Constituency.
“In Techiman South, the NDC won quite clearly, but for whatever unknown reason, the military was invited. In the ensuing scuffle two people were shot and killed by the military. A third person who sustained injuries has now been pronounced dead.
The results have allegedly been strangely declared for the NPP, even though the EC Chair claims to have left Techiman South out of her declaration,” he claimed.
This, he said, is an attack on the country’s democracy and the right of the people to elect their leaders.
He has, therefore, pledged to take all legitimate steps to reverse the election results while urging party’s members to resist any attempt to cow them into accepting what he said is fraudulent election results.
The NDC had earlier claimed at a press conference that they won 143 parliamentary seats flipping about 36 seats from the NPP.
The figure was revised in subsequent press conferences to 140 and later to 139 seats.
However, officials results released by the Electoral Commission indicate that the party won 136 seats as against the NPP’s 137 Constituency with the results of one Constituency yet to be determined.
