Irate NPP supporters besiege EC premises

The sympathisers, some of whom where clad in NPP t-shirts with red bands tied to their heads, run helter-skelter as the police chased them out of the vicinity of the EC.

Barricades had been erected close to both the Ridge Hospital and the Accra Psychiatric Hospita.

The NPP leadership had earlier laid a litany of accusations against the EC and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), alleging their connivance to alter electoral figures in favour of the NDC.

According to the NPP, there were a number of malpractices in some constituencies which gave it cause for concern about the credibility of media projections which put the NDC ahead in some provisional results from 269 constituencies.

Addressing the media, DCOP Rose Atinga Bio, the Director-General of Administration of the police said the police was prepared to handle the situation.

“The police are everywhere. We are not constrained to handle the situation. We are here with the army to contain the situation.”

A similar situation played out in 2008 when supporters of the NDC thronged the EC premises to protest an alleged alteration of figures from the NPP in the Ashanti Region, to help the party win the elections.

Story by Seth J. Bokpe