Progressive
People’s Party (PPP) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to, as
a matter of urgency, explain to Ghanaians its contract with Superlock
Technologies Limited (STL).
It will be recalled that the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 elections accused the
EC and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of using STL to
massage the election results in favour of the NDC.
The PPP’s
call for further explanation on the EC contract with STL comes in the
wake of the deportation of the three South African ex-police officers
who were brought into the country at the instance of the NPP.
Describing
the whole development as a case of “lies, malice and deceit,” the PPP
in a statement signed by its National Secretary, Murtala Mohammed, and
copied to Today yesterday in Accra, expressed that it “is unfortunate
that a country whose democratic credentials is hailed by the world as
the leader of African democracy will flout Court orders with impunity
and Ministers of State will openly defend such illegality.”
According
to the statement, the incident would be captured in history as one of
“Ghana’s lowers ebb” and will thus remain one of the “black spots on
President John Dramani Mahama” aside from his incompetence.
What
agitates PPP, the statement noted, was statement by the Interior
Minister, Mr. Prosper Bani, to the effect that the STL which documents
were allegedly found on the three South African ex-police officers, was
contracted by the Electoral Commission (EC) to transmit the 2012
elections results.
Against this background, the PPP charged the
EC to come out publicly to set the records straight that it indeed
engaged the services of the STL to transmit results on its behalf.
According
to the statement, the EC had once publicly denied the fact that the STL
was contracted to tally the results of 2012 elections.
And
because of this, the PPP’s national secretary said, the continuous
silence on the part of the EC on this revelation would mean that the EC,
led by its former boss, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, and the then candidate
of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, in
collaboration with the STL, “perpetrated electoral fraud in 2012.”
“This
clarification by the EC will have direct effect on our elections
come November 7, when we go to the polls once again,” the statement
asserted.
Consequently, the PPP demanded an immediate
clarification on the matter so as to salvage the credibility or
otherwise of the sanctity of the 2016 General Elections.
“We
further call for the immediate resignation of the minister of interior
and the Minister of Communications and his deputy for the spread of
palpable falsehood laced with agitprop with the intention to deceive the
people of Ghana.
…Moreover, the BNI officials must be sacked or
made to face the full rigours of the law. Our ministers and other
government officials must learn to act responsibly and be responsible
for their actions. No man is above the law, especially when you are paid
with the public purse,” the statement said.
According to the
PPP, “no government in its own right senses will deport suspected
“terrorists” or “mercenaries” without going through due process”?
“The
character of the NDC in 2000, the character of NPP in 2008 is evidently
manifested in the character of NDC in 2016; intimidation and
harassment, lies and malice, deceit and subterfuge, dictatorial
tendencies and abuse of incumbency,” the PPP pointed out.
The
statement also noted that this strategy by the NDC had been used in the
past to cajole Ghanaians to vote in a certain way “but the perpetrators
are oblivious to the fact that it has not been an effective tool for
electoral victory.”
“The economy is sick, unemployment is on the
increase and there is hopelessness in this government. These will be the
basis of people’s choices and votes and not an artificial state of
insecurity. The NDC must know better and fix the economy before they are
booted out on November, 7th, 2016,” the statement concluded.
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