Arrest Boakye Gyan, he has coup d'état in his blood - Nana B

National Youth Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has called for the arrest of Major Osahene Boakye Gyan (rtd) for instigating for a civil war in the country.

Major Osahene Boakye Gyan (rtd) is warning of impending doom should the Electoral Commission connive with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to rig the upcoming December polls.

The former military officer accused the EC of gradually leading the country into a civil war with its bull-headedness, particularly regarding the decision to compile a new voters register.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, Osahene Boakye Gyan claimed the EC, having a desire to rig the 2020 elections with the tacit assistance of the ruling NPP, is hell-bent on having a new register.

"This party (NPP) won power with the biggest electoral margin; so what has gone wrong? . . . this morning, I overheard an NPP activist on radio claiming if elections are held today, Nana Addo will be re-elected with some one million, three hundred thousand votes difference. See, the NPP has cooked up the figures already, they are simply looking for the means to legitimize their rigging by undertaking a registration exercise (through the EC)....," he alleged.

The former military capo strongly held that the country can go to the polls this year without resort to putting together a new register as was done in 2016.

Sounding a note of caution, he pointed out that most electoral disputes in Africa have resulted in civil wars and Ghana is not immune to it, and warned that "should the EC continue to toe the line of their paymasters, it will certainly spell doom for this country."

Reacting to the civil war comment on the same platform on Thursday, the NPP National Youth Organizer chastised the former military capo for playig war drums, inciting people to cause mayhem in the country.

“I am humbly calling on the Ghana Police to arrest Major Osahene Boakye Gyan. He is not all that old man; an old man who can play war drum is not an old man. He said that ‘if they want war, they will have it’. The man must be arrested and cautioned,” he charged.

He added that such comment from people with coup background should not be entertained, describing his comment as dangerous due to coup d’état antecedent.

He said Koku Anyidoho was arrested for similar comment and the same must be done to Major Boakye Gyan.

He reminded the likes of Major Osahene Boakye Gyan(rtd) that the intent of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new register is backed by the 1992 Constitution and that the new coronavirus cannot deter the EC from carrying out its constitutional mandate.