The founder of Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has apologized for a \u2018false\u2019 alarm he raised in Facebook post indicating some thumb printed ballots have been found in the Volta Region.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”vrGWCnojU7nCrZsp5PM3zNGJE6TEcCGp”]Mr Otchere-Darko said in a Facebook post on Saturday said, seals to some ballot bags in the Ketu South Constituency of the Volta Region had been broken and thumb printed ballot had been found in the bags.<\/p>\n
He added that the Electoral Commission was not willing to cooperate to address the issue.<\/p>\n
The Electoral Commission (EC) hours later said via its Facebook page that, \u201cchecks from Ketu South shows that there is no iota of truth<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the claim made in the post below. No such thing happened in Ketu South.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Otchere-Darko\u2019s viral post attracted a lot of criticism against the EC with many saying it was confirmation the EC would rig the upcoming polls.<\/p>\n But Gabby Otchere-Darko following the EC\u2019s response apologized for the \u2018false\u2019 claim and deleted the post.<\/p>\n He said the allegations were later \u201cfound not to be accurate on the fundamental facts\u201d<\/p>\n Read his statement below<\/p>\n