NPP calls for prosecution of Kintampo South electoral officer

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for the immediate prosecution of an electoral officer, Joseph Dery, who was arrested at the Kintampo South Constituency for issuing out about 15 ballot papers without the image of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

It described the act as a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise the Ghanaian people and deny them their fundamental rights.

The Communications Director of the NPP Campaign Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, who made the call in a media briefing this afternoon, said the party has a robust system in place in every polling station, adding that much of the machinations and mechanisms anyone attempted to do with the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the NPP would find out.

Mr Aboagye said the incident was a sad situation and must be condemned without any reservation.

The NPP Campaign Communications Director also encouraged members of the NPP, the security personnel and all electoral officers to remain vigilant, to ensure that such people who were working for the NDC did not have their own way in this particular election.

Mr Aboagye described the situation as worrying, saying: “Even in 2024, we still have the NDC trying to pursue such crude ways of manipulating our elections.”

He also alleged that the son of the NDC youth organiser from the Atwima-Kwanwoma Constituency in the Ashanti had in his possession 76 printed ballot papers already thumb-printed in favour of former President John Mahama and tried to stuff the ballot box with these illegal ballot papers.

He announced that the said culprit had been arrested and was in police custody.