The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for Adentan, Akosua Kozie Manu, has pleaded with Ghanaians not to repeat what she describes as the mistake of 2008.
According to her, when Ghanaians voted for the National Democratic Congress in the 2008 general election, they ended up undoing all the gains the NPP had made between 2000 and 2008.
“I plead, please let’s not repeat what happened in 2008 again. NPP must continue. When we say breaking the eight, NPP comes in, builds the foundation, builds the first floor, then Ghanaians make a mistake and go for the opposition, then they destroy the first floor and the foundation.
“2024 we won’t repeat that mistake again. We are moving forward with Dr. Bawumia,” She said.
The upcoming elections in Ghana on the 7th of December are highly significant. This election carries high stakes as the ruling NPP, led by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, aims to defy the tradition of power alternation between the NPP and the NDC every eight years.
On the other hand, the NDC, under the leadership of former President John Mahama, is making a strong comeback and is determined not to face defeat for the third time after losses in the 2016 and 2020 elections to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it is in no position to rig the 2024 General Election in favour of any political party.
The commission said elections are won or lost at the polling station and “not at the EC’s headquarters.”
According to the Deputy EC Chair in charge of Operations, Mr Samuel Tettey, the transparent nature of the electoral processes from registration to collation and declaration of results makes it impossible for the commission to determine the outcome of elections.
Mr Tettey said there was no loophole in the electoral process that could enable the commission to rig the elections in favour of any party or candidate.
He further noted that political parties had the will to put in systems to collate their figures from across the over 38,000 polling stations and match it with the figures of the commission at the close of polls.
Story By Sandra Adei Djanie
