NPP will rescue Ghana from crisis — Osei-Ameyaw

An aspirant vying for the presidential candidacy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kofi Osei-Ameyaw, has said the John Mahama Administration has demonstrated ineptitude in the handling of affairs, adding that only the NPP could rescue Ghana from the quagmire in which the nation found itself.

It is in that vein, he said, that the NPP was determined to guard against any electoral irregularities and ensure that the party won power to “rescue” the nation from the current economic difficulties.

Concerning his flag bearer ambitions, the Asuogyaman MP said he would throw his weight behind anyone declared the winner if he lost and advised the other aspirants to do same if he won.

He stated this after a tour of a number of polling centres during the just-ended limited voter registration exercise in Accra.

Undermining integrity

Speaking to the press, Mr Osei Ameyaw accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of seeking to undermine the integrity of the electoral system by preventing his party’s polling agents from collating figures at the ongoing voter registration exercise.

He explained that the party’s trained polling station agents, at the commencement of the voter registration exercise, began collecting data at the time officials of the EC were doing same at all polling stations.

The move, he said, was to assist in the compilation of a credible voters’ register.

On the first and second days, he said, the EC co-operated with the NPP’s polling agents in that endeavour. On the third day, however, the party’s agents were prevented from carrying out that task.

“Why the sudden change? Why is the EC behaving this way? What are they hiding that they don’t want us to know? Is the EC under the influence of some external forces? Who are the people behind this grand conspiracy,” he asked.

Mr Osei-Ameyaw who is also the member of Parliament for Asuogyaman, said the NPP was collating the data to compare them  with those collected by the EC and  ensure that there were no “irregularities or mistakes.”

“We do not want a situation where the EC would demand evidence when we raise concerns about the nature of the register and we would be unable to provide proof,” he said.

“Elections, according to the EC, are won at the polling station and so far as our actions are not deemed to have interfered with the registration process, the commission should allow our agents to do their work,” he added.