Irregularities were orchestrated in 2020 polls to favour NPP – Mahama

Former President of Ghana and leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has accused Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) of orchestrating a lot of errors in the just ended 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections to favour the incumbent government.

To him, the Jean Mensa led Commission is aware of all the irregularities but went ahead to declare Nana Akufo-Addo as winner of the Presidential polls as well as declare majority of seats for the New Patriotic Party.

He made this known in an address to the nation on Thursday night, December 10, 2020, a day after he was declared the loser in the December 7, 2020, presidential elections. He secured 47.359% of the valid votes cast.

Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo won his second term bid after securing a 51.59% of valid votes cast.

But Mr Mahama said the “results have strangely been declared for the NPP.”

According to him, “these results are flawed and discredited.”

“It is now obvious to many objective minds that the Commission and its Chairperson have been used to manipulate results from the various constituencies and in that process seek to subvert the sovereign will of the Ghanaian people. We will not accept anything short of a declaration of the legitimate results which points to an NDC parliamentary majority” he indicated.