A staunch member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Afrifa Yamoah Ponko has revealed that the party conceded to defeat in 2020 because some influential people in the country spoke with the party’s leadership.
He expressed that it was evident that the NDC won the 2020 elections but it was rigged in favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with the help of security personnel and the Electoral Commission (EC).
Yamoah Ponko admitted that even though the Electoral Commission is to be blamed for the party’s predicament, the party itself is to be blamed too since it didn’t manage the election well.
He went on to say that although the NDC will continue to talk about power being taken away from them they will be more vigilant in 2024 so that they can assume office.
”Kwame, they have a point when they say we do not have our own collated results because I believe we have to take some of the blame because I cannot defend that everything went smoothly for us. I will be a hypocrite to say that we manage our elections well. We have our shortcomings but if you do the maths, I tell you that John Mahama won”.
”NDC won the majority of seats too but it was a calculated machination they engaged in that worked for them with the help of certain people especially some people who were clad in Military uniform who are not Military men. These people went to kill people in Techiman”.
”I’m still saying and I will not hide it that the declaration of Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 election was a lie, he stole the election, the EC rigged the election but we have kept quiet because there’re elderly people in the country. But we have decided to drum home what happened as a move to ensure vigilance in the 2024 election”, he stated on Accra-based Okay FM.