National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer John Mahama has indicated the party is prepared to respond to electoral fraud in the 2024 election.
He asserts that the Electoral Commission (EC) may be trying to influence the results of the general election.
The former president claims that some Ghanaians will lose their right to vote as a result of the Commission’s new identification directive involving the Ghana Card.
The Electoral Commission is moving forward with the use of the Ghana Card for the creation of the new voters’ register despite opposition from some segments of the populace.
As a result, Ghanaian voters without Ghana cards will be unable to cast ballots in the general election of 2024.
The National Democratic Congress’s flagbearer calls the new directive unnecessary.
According to Mr. Mahama, the NPP will rely on the EC’s flexible leadership and initiatives to maintain power.
“The New Patriotic Party led by President Akufo-Addo has shown that they are prepared to resort to electoral manipulation through the pliant and partisan leadership of the Electoral Commission to hang on to power.
“It is our responsibility to give expression and manifestation to the desire of the Ghanaian people for change by remaining eternally vigilant and ensuring that the change is secured through democratic means and that no effort at undermining the change through rigging or other forms of manipulation will succeed.
“It is in this light that we in the NDC wish to make clear that we will resist and prevent any sinister plot by the EC to manipulate the outcome of the 2024 elections, even before the first ballot is cast, through the needless and unacceptable insistence on the Ghana card as the only means of registration.
“The EC remains intransigent and appears determined to make it difficult for sections of our population to have their names on the voters register, by restriction identification for that purpose to only the Ghana card, which as we all know is not available to all Ghanaians,” he said.
The former president was speaking at the Tertiary Education Institutions Network of NDC’s (TEIN-KNUST) Alumni Connect at Kwame University of Science and Technology.
The Alumni Connect mentors the party’s young members and mobilizes NDC leaders for political engagement.
“Empowering TEIN: Unlocking Potentials, Building Bridges of Change” served as the theme of this year’s event.
Selma Yoda, the Association’s president, urged the party’s youth wing to take part in the fight to unseat the NPP.
“It’s not only just about TEIN but also their use in the country. Even if you are not a polling agent, you can mobilize people from your jurisdiction, wherever you live, wherever you work.
“You can preach the good word of the NDC, and you can preach the name of John Dramani Mahama,” she said.
