NPP plans to rig— Inusah

Alhaji Isaaka Inusah, a former Campaign Manager of NPP Presidential Candidate, Mr J. A. Kufour, on Saturday catalogued a series of measures he alleged the NPP has put in place to rig the forthcoming elections.

He alleged that besides the registration of children, the NPP has encouraged its supporters to engage in multiple registration to enable them vote more than once. He was speaking at an NDC regional rally in Kumasi at the weekend.

Alhaji Inusah further alleged that the NPP has successfully infiltrated the Electoral Commission and has had its members employed as electoral and returning officers.

According to him, this will enable them to issue multiple cards to NPP members who will be identified by pre-agreed signs and symbols.

The trick, he said, is that NPP supporters groomed for the exercise will go to the polling centre early to carry through the plan.

Another plan, he alleged, has been designed to spoil NDC ballots.

To effect this, he explained, the EC collaborators will refuse to sign the ballot papers they will give to suspected NDC supporters to ensure that their votes are invalidated.

He said the NPP’s elaborate rigging plan has provided that where an NDC supporter insists that the ballot be signed, the EC officials will intentionally dip his finger in the ink and spoil the ballot to make it invalid.

He said the NPP has also tried to recruit some NDC polling agents, particularly in the Ashanti Region, to help in the exercise.

Alhaji Inusah wondered why the NPP called for his arrest after his first disclosures.

He said since 1992, the NPP has accused the NDC of vote rigging without anyone calling for their arrest.

Alhaji Inusah urged NDC supporters not to fear but go out and vote for the party.

The Minister for National Security Mr Kofi Totobi Quakyi, said no law prevents a person with a thumbprint ID from voting.

He, therefore, asked all Ghanaians who, through no fault of theirs, would not have the photo ID card by voting day, to vote with their thumbprint ID.

Mr Quakyi urged all NDC supporters in the Ashanti Region who have non-Akan names not to feel intimidated by the threats of the opposition and go out and vote.