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NPP rigged 2016 polls, Afotey Agbo claims without evidence
The National Democratic Congress MP speculated that in the Ashanti Region, which is the stronghold of the NPP, more than one ballot paper was issued out to voters.
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According to him, NDC polling agents were stationed far away from where the ballot papers were being issued, making it difficult for the party's agents to keep stock of the number of ballot papers issued at the close of polls.
“Some of our people (agents) were not vigilant at the polling stations because instead of sitting close to the polling officers who were issuing the ballot papers, they were asked to keep a distance and out of ignorance or influence, they did. Then people had a field day and issued more than one ballot paper, some three, some four, some five, to vote," he said in an interview with Accra-based Accra FM.
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“In most of the polling stations in Ashanti, there was over-voting, but we could not hold on [to these allegations] and create problems for this country, and so we had to let it go. We will ensure that those mistakes do not happen again,” he added.
The claim of over-voting in the Ashanti Region has been strongly rejected by the Ashanti Regional Chair of the Electoral Commission.
But leading figures of the NDC keep pushing the false narrative that over-voting occurred in the Ashanti Region.
Last week, the party's Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho, claimed the NPP hacked the EC's system to manipulated the results despite the fact that the results were tabulated manually.
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Other party bigwigs have also alleged over voting in the Eastern Region, another stronghold of the NPP.
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