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NPP stake claim for 13 parliamentary seats illegally declared for NDC under duress.

PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY JUSTIN KODUA FRIMPONG,
GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY ON THE
OUTCOME OF THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND RELATED
MATTERS
Friends from the media,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is pleased to have you in attendance
for this press conference. Recent events, particularly the outcome of the 2024 general
elections and the unfolding lawlessness by leading members of the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) and their supporters across the country has necessitated
this engagement.
Background
As we are already aware, Ghana went to the polls on Saturday, December 7, 2024, to
elect a President in addition to Two Hundred and Seventy-Six (276) Members of
Parliament. Just sixteen hours after the close of polls, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia,
presidential candidate and flagbearer of the ruling NPP conceded defeat, an occurrence
never recorded in the 32 years of our democracy.
Ordinarily, the concession speech by Dr. Bawumia and the NPP should have deflated
all tensions pertaining to the elections. After all, what was there to fight for again?
However, the NDC, inspired by sheer lawlessness, has been sending thugs to district
and regional collation centres of the EC to force officials of the Commission into
declaring results in their favour even when all due processes had not been completed.
In the Greater Accra region on Monday December 9, 2024, leading members of the
NDC captured and locked up the regional office of the EC where collation for several
parliamentary elections was ongoing. They chased out State security personnel and
brought in their party thugs and subsequently took over the collation process for
Okaikwei Central and Ablekuma North constituencies.
Further, as it is already known to the public, some of our parliamentary candidates
and officials of the EC were either held at gunpoint or physically assaulted at
various collation centres by hoodlums of the NDC to force them to declare the
results in their favour in the following constituencies:

  1. Ablekuma North
  2. Dome-Kwabenya
  3. Okaikwei Central
  4. Tema Central
  5. Ahafo Ano North
  6. Obuasi East
  7. Ahafo Ano South West
  8. Akwatia
  9. Suhum
  10. Fanteakwa North
  11. Nsawam-Adoagyiri
  12. Techiman South
  13. Aowin
    Such dastardly acts in the above constituencies threaten the very foundation of our
    democracy and are likely to trigger unrest and insecurity should the NPP respond in
    equal measure. Many of you would attest that on occasions or instances when post-
    election violence has been recorded, it is often the case that the opposition based on
    alleged unfairness and lack of transparency resulting in their loss will resort to open
    attacks, incite their supporters to violence and lawlessness including the destruction of
    public and private properties.
    It therefore defies logic that a Party that has been declared winner of a general election
    would encourage its supporters to pursue such acts of lawlessness and vandalism as
    being witnessed in the constant pronouncements by the leadership of the NDC. Some
    sitting NDC Members of Parliament who ought to know better are rather encouraging
    and leading this lawless rampage.
    Beyond electoral matters, we have also gathered video evidence of supporters and thugs
    of the NDC engaged in the wanton looting of State properties and items as well as the
    burning and destruction of private properties including that of our parliamentary
    candidates. This is unacceptable!! This is lawlessness!!! If the NDC can unleash such
    nation-wrecking violence even after winning, you can only imagine what they would
    have done had they lost the elections!!!
    The leadership of the NPP is deeply concerned about these happenings particularly the
    inaction of the Ghana Police Service in most instances. We are very disappointed in the
    leadership of the Police Service for its lackadaisical handling of the unfolding
    lawlessness. It has been established that police personnel who were on duty at places
    where these mayhems were unleashed were told to ‘stand-down’ and they did.
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    In some instances, the Police, who were unarmed, told our Parliamentary
    Candidates and their supporters that they [the Police] could not guarantee their
    safety. This emboldened the thuggery of the NDC and escalated the violence being
    meted out to our supporters, parliamentary candidates, State institutions. This
    display of inaction and unprofessional policing will forever dent the record of the
    IGP, Dr. Akufo Dampare.
    It is obvious that Ghana is on the brink of returning to the dark days of
    revolutionary impunity, when adherents and devotees of the Provisional National
    Defence Council (PNDC), the mother Party that birthed the NDC, ruled with
    brute-force by confiscating the properties and belongings of people, stripping
    people naked in public, and brutally murdering judges of our courts. We ask, where
    lies the voices of men and women of good conscience? Why the silence and inaction of
    key stakeholders amid this unfolding anarchy?
    The NPP would like to emphatically state that it does not lack the support base to
    respond to the violence in retaliation to what the NDC is doing. However, it is in
    the interest of keeping peace and protecting the sanctity of our 32-year-old
    democracy in the 4th republic that we have desisted from any form of retaliation
    and violence.
    OUR RESOLUTIONS
    The Steering Committee of the NPP, at its emergency meeting held on Tuesday,
    December 10, 2024, resolved that, the Party is not contesting the outcome of the
    presidential elections as declared by the EC. However, the Party wishes to state
    emphatically that it cannot, and will not, kowtow to the brutish and undemocratic
    manner by which the NDC has forcefully declared themselves winners of some
    parliamentary seats when all available data and evidence points to victory for our
    parliamentary candidates.
  14. The Party, accordingly, calls on the Electoral Commission to immediately take
    appropriate steps to overturn the illegal declarations made under threats and
    duress in favour of the NDC’s parliamentary candidates in Ablekuma North,
    Dome-Kwabenya, Okaikwei Central, Tema Central, Ahafo Ano North, Obuasi
    East, Ahafo Ano South West, Akwatia, Suhum, Fanteakwa North, Nsawam-
    Adoagyiri, Techiman South and Aowin constituencies.
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  15. We call on the National Peace Council, National House of Chiefs, Christian
    Council of Ghana, Catholic Bishops Conference, the Office of the National Chief
    Imam, Organised Labour, Civil Society Organisations, the Diplomatic
    Community especially the Likeminded Missions’ Elections Group, Ghana
    Journalists Association, and particularly the Ghana Bar Association to condemn
    the unfolding lawlessness by the NDC and their undemocratic attempts to reverse
    our democratic gains.
    In conclusion, it is obvious that the NDC has decided to resort to violence and
    mayhem even in the wake of their presidential victory. This is totally inconsistent
    with the ideals of true democracy. We are so certain that we won the
    parliamentary seats in the aforementioned constituencies. We urge the EC to take
    the appropriate steps to give effect to the will of the people in these
    constituencies as expressed on December 7, 2024.
    May God bless our homeland Ghana and make the NPP greater and stronger.
    Long live our democracy!!!

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