Prez Mahama is manipulating EC Chair Charlotte Osei - PPP alleges

The Progressive Peoples Party has accused President John Dramani Mahama of manipulating EC chair Charlotte Osei to engage in acts that will help the NDC win the upcoming December elections.

Speaking after a media interaction on Thursday, deputy general secretary of the Progressive Peoples Party, Paa Kow Ackon accused President Mahama of working with the EC chair to ensure that he is handed another four-year term in this year's general elections.

According to the PPP's deputy general secretary, recent acts by Charlotte Osei has given the party reason to believe she is under the influence of the President.

He says the machination by the EC chairperson indicated that there was a grand agenda in place to make sure the party’s flagbearer Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom does not participate in the upcoming elections over fears he may cause an upset in the presidential elections. He believes the act is a deliberate one put together by the president and is being executed by the EC chair.

" ..He is not able to match Dr. Nduom on the job creation agenda. He feels threatened and the only thing he feels he can do is to work behind the scenes as the invisible hand to make sure that Dr. Nduom does not participate but we have uncovered all their schemes. We have uncovered them and Ghanaians are discerning enough to know that the NDC and President Mahama are the ones working behind the scenes to make sure that Dr. Nduom does not participate in the 2016 elections." Paa Kow Ackon said as he accused President John Dramani Mahama.

He added, "We have barely forty days to the elections and all the schemes are indications of an attempt to rig the elections. They know that if PPP is in the race, there’s no way they can rig the elections and that is why they are bent on making sure that the PPP does not participate in the 2016 elections’’ he said.