Social Commentator, Sydney Casley-Hayford, has alleged that the opposition\u00a0National Democratic Congress (NDC), manipulated the voters’ register for years.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0news analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, Mr. Casley-Hayford said: \u201cMy theory is that, over the years, the NDC had started, even as far back as Jerry Rawling\u2019s time, manipulating the voters\u2019 register.\u201d<\/p>\n The member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, revealed that he gathered this information from his \u201cprivate correspondence\u201d adding that he could \u201cprove it statistically.\u201d<\/p>\n According to him, the \u201cextra numbers that were on the voters\u2019 register and that have been on the voters\u2019 register for decades, were all padded numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is where I believe sincerely that the NDC deceived themselves into thinking that they had those million plus votes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Sydney Casley-Hayford said the fact that the NDC won the 2008 elections while the party was out of power, did not necessarily mean they could not have manipulated the register.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that you are not in power does not mean you cant have somebody who is in a position to change numbers that the people in power don\u2019t know about. If I have a deep throat somewhere in the Electoral Commission who is influential enough and can manipulate numbers well enough, he can do that without the party necessarily being in power.\u201d<\/p>\n He was also livid over what he called the NDC\u2019s constant deception of the citizenry, even after losing the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n \u201c I think that the NDC after so many decades of running this country has started believing their own lies. For a long time they kept trumpeting their success stories and we would refuse to listen to whole facts. Even at the time when the economy was slipping and many people were venting, they still wanted you to believe that everything was fine. When they went to the IMF and we commented, they still wouldn\u2019t listen.\u201d<\/p>\n Ahead of the elections, Abu Ramadan and one Evans Nimako went to the Supreme Court to seek an interpretation of the court\u2019s earlier ruling on\u00a0the validity of the voters’ register.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court subsequently ordered the Electoral Commission to with immediate effect remove the names of about 56,000 people\u00a0who registered with NHIA cards\u00a0as proof of Ghanaian citizenship, ahead of the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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