Accra, Ghana, June 10, 2020//-John Dramani Maham, the former President and Flagbearer of Ghana’s largest opposition party- National Democratic Congress (NDC), has hinted that the party will not accept the results of the 2020 general elections if the process is unfair.
According to him, the party was committed to a peaceful election but won’t accept the results of a flawed election.
Mr Mahama gave the warning at the launch of activities to mark the NDC’s 28th anniversary in Accra.
He pledged that the party was committed to a peaceful electoral process “but let nobody assume that we will accept the results of a flawed election.”
Commenting on the EC’s decision to compile a new voters’ register, he against the move, arguing the EC is creating tension in the country.
Mr Mahama said never has it been during the Fourth Republic that six months to a general election, “we are all unsure of what register we are going to use for the vote.”
“It has never happened,” he stressed.
Reiterating the party’s position on the upcoming compilation, Mr Mahama noted that the documents the EC intends to use for the process would disenfranchise millions of voters.
The party argues only two million Ghanaians are in possession of a passport and less than seven million in possession of the Ghana cards.
As the EC is reported to go with only these documents as primary identification documents, the former President and the NDC maintained that lots of Ghanaians cannot enroll to vote on December 7.
They want the EC to accept the existing voters’ ID card as one of the primary documents if they must necessarily compile a new one.
It argued that the current voters’ register is full of challenges and therefore must be changed.
The NDC has taken in all elections in the Fourth Republic and it has accepted defeat each time it lost.
African Eye Report
