Joseph Anokye, the Director-General of the National Communications Authority (NCA) cum NPP election collation IT guru has contradicted the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) over votes cast in the Techiman South Constituency in the parliamentary election.
According to him, while the party’s internal collation of the Techiman South presidential results goes to the opposition candidate, John Dramani Mahama, the parliamentary results are hard to come by.
Joe Anokye told Paul Adom-Otchere’s Good Evening Ghana show on Metro TV, Tuesday, December 15, that the NDC’s John Dramani Mahama won with 51,403 votes against the NPP candidate President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who had a little over 46,000 votes.
When the host asked him about the parliamentary votes, Anokye responded, “There is a big challenge with parliamentary results. Parliamentary are (sic) very low, so typically the PCs manage that so oftentimes it is difficult to get our parliamentary numbers…A good number of our parliamentary sheets are not in.”
The incumbent NPP has insisted that it won the Techiman South Constituency seat in the Bono East Region, thereby making Martin Agyei-Mensah Korsah the MP-elect.
He polled allegedly 49,682 votes representing 50.24% as against the NDC candidate Christopher Beyere Baasongti who polled 49,205 votes representing 49.76%.
The incumbent NPP claims that their pink sheets which they received from the EC showed their candidate won the seat but the NDC doubted these claims indicating that the governing party do not have their own pink sheet.
Addressing journalists last Friday, Prince Yaw Donyina, a former Municipal Chief Executive of the Techiman Municipality refuted the claims by the NDC that the incumbent party does not even have its own pink sheets for the constituency provided by the EC.
He said the claim that the NPP did not have the pink sheets should be disregarded, as they have all their documents intact.
The NDC has always rejected the NPP’s position on the declaration, asserting that the pink sheets do not suggest that the NPP is the winner of the constituency.
There is controversy over whether the collation exercise took place for that parliamentary election.
Meanwhile, the NDC led by its General Secretary, John Asiedu Nketiah, Lt. Col Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, Peter Boamah Otukunor, Baba Jamal, Kojogah Adawudu among others, have visited both the constituency and the regional offices of the EC to get the constituency pink sheet from which the NPP’s Martin Agyei-Mensah Korsah was declared the winner of the poll, but they were not given.
The NCA boss’ revelation on Good Evening Ghana that the NPP has a big challenge with the Parliamentary result could just be the reason the EC officers were unable to supply the NDC delegation with the constituency pink sheet from which it declared the NPP parliamentary candidate the winner.
Joe Anokye’s statement on Metro TV, cast doubt over the authenticity of the constituency pink sheet allegedly available to the incumbent NPP.
When asked by Paul Adom-Otchere whether Jean Mensa, the EC boss, was referring to parliamentary result or presidential result from Techiman South when she said that the results were not in, Anokye responded that as far as he was aware, there was an issue with one polling station, but he was unsure which of the results Jean Mensa meant.
Source: ghanaweb
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