The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected a claim made by Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who claimed that the NPP and the EC conspired to transfer Charles Opoku’s vote to the Assin North Constituency so that he could run in the upcoming by-election there.
According to the Commission, this is untrue.
“This illegal move is to aid the said Charles Opoku to contest in the NPP Parliamentary primaries to select a candidate for the forthcoming Assin North by-election,” Sammy Gyamfi stated in a statement.
According to “our unimpeachable sources,” Charles Opoku is not a registered voter in the Assin North Constituency, despite a clear requirement on the nomination form for the Assin North by-election that a candidate in the election must be.
However, the EC stated in a statement that it had not received any such request from the NPP to transfer any individual’s votes. This claim is untrue and the product of the author’s fantasy. As usual, it seeks to impugn the Electoral Commission’s credibility. A person does not have to be a registered voter in a certain constituency to be allowed to vote under Article 94 of the 1992 Constitution.
