The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, yesterday issued another caution to President
John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to cease
using police-state tactics to interfere with the preparation of
evidence for the upcoming court case to challenge the EC's
declaration of Mr Mahama as the
one-touch victor in the just-ended presidential
election.
“These tactics can only be described in one way — a police
state — and they are virtually an admission of NDC guilt over its
crude election theft," he added.
Mr Owusu Afriyie accused the NDC of manipulating the vote
count and then sending dozens of fully armed police and military
personnel on a raid of a private office full of male and female
students merely counting blue sheets.
He further stated that at the weekend, “we had the break-in
and ransacking of the law office of Gloria Akuffo, the lead member
of the NPP legal team”.
According to Mr Owusu Afriyie, Ms Akuffo had her computer
server taken away but she had not left any case documents in the
office to be tampered with, adding that as a cover up, other
offices in the Pyramid House, where her office is located, were
also broken into.
"Ghana is a democracy and its people will not stand back and
allow any more such violent and disgusting activities to occur.
They are becoming a daily reality, just like the blackmail, bribery
and even threats of physical harm made by the NDC to keep polling
agents from cooperating with the NPP's court case," he
said.
"Elections must be decided by the people who cast the votes.
Their sovereign will cannot be usurped by those who fraudulently
count, tabulate or declare the votes. We are certain that the
evidence we will bring to the Supreme Court will uncover a vast
pattern of irregularities that cannot go unaddressed if Ghanaian
democracy is to continue to thrive.
“We repeat our call to all supporters of the NPP and of our
court case in search of truth and justice to remain calm. We thank
them for the peaceful response throughout the country so far, even
in the face of extreme NDC provocation, and declare ‘God and the
country is on our side’,” he concluded.
