Broadcast journalist Paul Adom-Ochere says he is certain president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.
Speaking on his Good Evening Ghana show on Metro TV, Adom-Ochere said he suspected the outcome of the 2008 presidential elections was manipulated in favour of the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate Prof. Evans Atta-Mills and had sought to convince Akufo-Addo to challenge the results.
For the 2012 elections, he said it was evident during the election petition hearing that the then NPP candidate won the polls and that he was robbed of his victory.
““I told Akufo-Addo in 2012 that I wanted to move an application to the Supreme Court that a the spoilt ballots should be brought to the Supreme Court and let’s open them and see. In 2008 elections, total number of spoilt almost 300,000, the highest ever. Akufo-Addo was looking for 25,000”.
Explaining the basis of suspicion, Adom-Ochere stated that he believes Akufo-Addo’s votes were deliberately spoilt during sorting and counting in the 2008 polls.
This method of manipulating election results, he described, as the “yomo mafia”.
The “yomo mafia”, he explained, is perpetrated by smearing dye on one’s hair and while the ballots are being sorted, they would stain their hands with the dye and then proceed to touch the target ballots so that it would appear to have been spoilt.
“I believe they were spoiled by yomo and I think if you pull those ballots and you watch them, you would see that it was the yomo mafia that did it. Then came 2012,we all saw what happened in the Supreme Court”.
He added, “So for me, I believe Akufo-Addo won 2008 and won 2012 and because it was taken away from him, that’s why the victory of 2016 was the biggest in the history of the Fourth Republic”.
This, he said, was perpetrated against Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 elections, leading to his defeat.
