NDC Exposes John Boadu

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has taken a swipe at the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr John Boadu describing the NPP scribe as a pathological liar.

The NDC on behalf of its Deputy Director of Elections, Mr Daniel Amartey told Soireenews that it has video evidence to back its claim that Mr Boadu is a liar.

According to the NDC, its attention has been drawn to a statement from the office of the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, denying claims that he categorically stated that NPP lost the parliamentary elections to the NDC even though Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the 2020 presidential elections. 

The NDC noted that Mr Boadu’s press release is a rather feeble attempt to backtrack on a statement he categorically made that the NPP lost the parliamentary majority to the NDC.  

The NDC asserted that Mr Boadu while addressing the media at the NPP’s National Collation Centre in December last year said: “Nana Addo Dankwa won overwhelmingly the presidential elections with a margin of over seven hundred thousand BUT… WE LOST THE PARLIAMENTARY. THE NDC WON even with a lesser margin. It is on that basis the Ghanaian people decided” (Video evidence attached). 

"Ghanaians would recall that subsequent to this admission by Mr Boadu, the NPP government deployed persons in military uniforms to some constituency collation centres to cause mayhem and forcibly declare parliamentary election results in favour of the NPP to overturn the NDC majority in Parliament. 

The party pointed out that the indiscriminate shootings at some of these centres led to the deaths of 8 persons–a development that is unprecedented in Ghana’s electoral history.

The NDC indicated that the classic cases in point are Techiman South, Sefwi Wiawso, Tarkwa Nsuaem, Essikado-Ketan, Sene West, Zabzugu, Ablekuma North and Odododiodio constituencies.

At present, it is noted that some of these cases are still in court.  

The party asserted that evidence is there for all Ghanaians to see how the NPP manipulated the Electoral Commission to declare the presidential results in favour of Nana Akufo-Addo. 

The NDC averred that the 2020 election Presidential Election results have left doubts in the minds of Ghanaians about the credibility of the elections and the legitimacy of the presidency of Nana Akufo-Addo. 

"It is still unclear which of the results of the Electoral Commission is authentic since the Commission changed the results about six times its bid to declare Nana Akufo-Addo winner of the elections.  

"The hostile approach adopted by the Supreme Court in the Presidential Election Petition case even made matters worse.," the party noted.

The NDC condemned in no uncertain terms Mr Boadu’s unwarranted attacks on the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament, A.S.K. Bagbin for speaking the truth. 

The party stated categorically that John Boadu cannot run away from his own words. He must have the courage to accept authorship of the above words and boldly stand by the same. 

In spite of all the machinations by the Nana Akufo-Addo-Bawumia and the NPP including the crude removal and replacement of the Chairperson and deputies of the Electoral Commission as well as the training and deployment of vigilantes, the NDC pointed out that the abysmal performance of the NPP in the 2020 elections is obvious for all to see. 

According to the party, the results show a party that has lost touch with Ghanaians and yet try to use brute force and dubious schemes to illegitimately remain in power. 

Instead of attacking the Rt. Hon Speaker of Parliament for speaking the truth, the NDC urged Mr Boadu to be rather concerned about the cries of Ghanaians as a result of the untold hardship of the failed Akufo-Addo – Bawumia has brought on Ghanaians due to bad governance, unprecedented corruption and the wanton mismanagement of the economy.

Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater Accra Regional Correspondent