Press Conference On Npp’s
Allegations On Electoral Fraud
12/21/2012
The BRIDGE welcomes you
ladies and gentlemen of the press to this brief
encounter.
We have gathered here to address certain negative events that
occurred before, during and after the general elections of December
7 and 8. To begin, we would like to congratulate his Excellency the
president on his election to the highest office of the land.
Secondly, we congratulate all the other contestants who have
sincerely conceded defeat in a spirit of true competition,
nationalism and honesty. We also congratulate the security agencies
and other civil organizations for contributing to the most peaceful
elections ever held in this country. We would like to make mention
of the Peace Council, the Catholic Bishop’s Conference, the
Christian Council of Ghana, the Muslim Council of Ghana and the
International observers just to mention a few.
We have summoned you here to address some issues which are
likely to destroy the peace we have been enjoying in the
country.
We all do recall the office at Dzorwulu that was supposedly
being used to manipulate figures when the elections were still in
progress. We also recall how on that same Accra FM station, they
were broadcasts of the car number of a vehicle supposed to be
transporting ballot papers from some office at Ridge to the
electoral commission offices. We also recall how in the heat of the
elections, the general secretary of the NPP in the person of Mr.
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie organized a press conference on the Saturday
after the Friday polls encouraging their supporters to go to church
on the following Sunday in white clothes, his reasons being that
they are leading by 51.7%. We hereby declare that the most
important thing in all this is that Dr. Kwadwo Afari Djan, the
constitutionally mandated person, declared his Excellency John
Dramani Mahama the duly elected president.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, through its communicators
before the 2012 elections, the New Patriotic Party has variously
made pronouncements to Ghanaians warning of a scenario like
Afghanistan i.e. internal violence
in this country; they had also vowed ‘to win at all cost’. These
pronouncements followed the infamous “All Die Be Die”
declaration.
All these utterances point to
a Mind Control effort carried out by the new patriotic party to
condition the minds of Ghanaians to accept the violence and chaos
that they had planned to unleash on our dear country during the
2012 general elections. We have seen it manifesting right before our eyes albeit without
success.
On the allegations of electoral misconduct, The NPP’s
reference point for electoral
rigging at Dome Kwabenya is the claim that the figures recorded
on the EC’s certified results for
candidates John Mahama and Nana Addo are the true reflection of the
results declared by the EC’s own returning officials at the Dome
Kwabenya constituency. At the Ledzokuku constituency, the NPP
Chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, made a false allegation that a joy
FM reporter called 63000 votes for John Mahama instead of 53000 but on the EC’s certified results, it recorded
53000. These are a few other examples of the bogus allegations that
the new patriotic party have churned out as evidences of wrong vote
figures. The NPP as a party, has a series of collation centers
which were used to monitor the results announced at over 26000
polling stations across the country. But the fact of the matter is
the NPP as we speak had not been able to tell us the percentage
they had at their collation centers. But is
now trying to deceive the general public that they are now
gathering and collating the red sheets. When the leadership of the
npp met the EC and the Peace
Council, they said they had enough evidence to stop the declaration
of the elections results. Upon
further deliberations the EC boss went ahead to make the
declarations because the NPP did not have any credible evidence.
They then asked for 24hrs to produce their evidence. If the EC boss
had listened to them, as at this press conference, the results
for the 2012 General Elections,
would not have been declared.
The NPP had been working to plunge this country into a state
of chaos.
Our source has also revealed that a court injunction was
served on the EC boss on Monday at 10am to prevent him from
declaring the results. Another trick was played on Ghanaians that
the supposed evidence gathered by the npp had been taken away in police raid on their
collation center. This later changed to an NPP excuse that they
were gathering the evidence from over 20,000 polling centers from
around the country. In the end, they took refuge in a legal period
of twenty one (21) days to finally present the results to The
Supreme Court.
At a time when Ghanaians have clearly seen through the
gimmick, NPP allies and surrogates like AFAG have joined in the
fray singing the same song as their mother party and mischievously
organizing press conferences and demonstrations in order to push us
all to the brink of social disturbances.
In all these propagandist musical chairs and political
circus, we have noted the dignified silence of the discerning
majority of Ghanaians. We also assure the silent majority that the
rule of law and divine guidance which have brought us through the
2012 general elections will continue to hold this country as one
peaceful domain.
In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen of the press we urge all
Ghanaians to go about their normal duties because all that is being
churned out by the NPP and its allies are palpable falsehood. We
the BRIDGE invite all Ghanaians to witness and be part of the
swearing in of his Excellency the President Elect John Dramani
Mahama on the 7th of January 2013 in furtherance of the better
Ghana agenda.
We thank you for coming and wish all Ghanaians a merry
Christmas and a happy new year.
THE BRIDGE
Bright Kinful
(Deputy Secretary)
Godwin Tamakloe 0246330683
Robert Kpeteme 0242380821
Philip Kukubor 0243115136
