There’s a plan by NPP to rig 2020 elections – Asiedu Nketia

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has made adequate plans towards rigging of the 2020 general elections by instituting systems, the Opposition National Democratic Congress has alleged. 

The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia made this claim while addressing the press at the party’s headquarters on Thursday, September 3, 2020.

Mr. Nketia said the NPP plans to use “violence” and “other undemocratic intimidation tactics” to rig the elections.

He indicated that the NPP’s “grand scheme” is contained in an alleged leaked tape of a Deputy Regional Minister for Bono East, Martin Oti Gyarko instructing some members of the NPP’s invincible forces to cause mayhem in the just-ended voters’ registration exercise.

“In this leaked audiotape, the Deputy Regional Minister Hon. Oti Gyaaka popularly known as “Homeboy” was caught giving explicit instructions to the NPP Vigilante team to among other things, maim and commit murder where necessary with the promise of state protection and reward instead of prosecution.”

“Again on the leaked tape, the minister claimed that the media and all the state institution such as EC, the Judiciary and security agencies are fully behind the NPP in prosecuting this diabolic agenda and that it has been agreed that immediately any crime is committed by them, the NPP will rush to the press feigning to be victims and accuse the NDC of all such crimes,” he said.

Mr. Nketia called on the international community to clamp down on plans by the NPP to cause violence during the 2020 elections.

“Let me use this opportunity to invite the International Community to impress upon Nana Akufo-Addo’s Government and the relevant state institutions mentioned in the leaked tape to take immediate steps to abandon any grand agenda of collusion with the NPP to perpetrate violence, intimidation and injustice on the people of this country.”