National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary
Johnson Asiedu Nketia on Sunday announced in a press conference
that the party was awaiting the declaration of election results
by the Electoral Commission (EC), in
spite of allegations by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of electoral
fraud.
The NPP had requested that the EC delay the declaration of
results until an investigation is conducted into the
allegations.
Asiedu Nketia said that all credible political parties
collate results and that the NDC’s collations correspond with the
results that the EC has released so far. He added in a barely
veiled jab at the NPP that parties who struggle with mathematics
should not visit the effects of their incompetence on the
nation.
He disparaged the NPP’s request to “negotiate” with the EC,
explaining that power sharing is not a part of the NDC's system and
that it is the sole duty of the EC to declare election results,
which he hopes will happen within the 48-hour framework that the EC
originally projected.
He urged NDC supporters to remain calm and the peace loving
people of Ghana not to be alarmed, and assured the international
community that nothing untoward was happening in Ghana, referring
to the NPP’s fraud allegations as “lies.”
