1,340,000 votes were wrongly counted in the elections – Dr. Bawumia

About 1,340,000 votes have been revealed by the New Patriotic Party as bloated during the 2012 Presidential elections.

The 2012 Vice Presidential candidate of the party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia revealed this in a news conference today at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.

He disclosed the 1,340,000 votes were wrongly counted in the just-ended December polls, which according to him, reveals the “sophisticated irregularities” that characterised the polls.

He explained that a critical assessment of the party’s evidence points out to the fact that Nana Addo should have been declared the next President under the fourth Republic of Ghana.

The opposition New Patriotic Party earlier today filed a petition to the Supreme Court to seek redress over the party’s accusations that the Electoral Commission connived with the National Democratic Congress to rig the elections.

The party petitioned the Supreme Court to look into the alleged electoral fraud in hope that the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as the winner in the 2012 Presidential contest will be overturned.

Dr. Bawumia insisted the revelations done by the NPP give credence to the issue of rigging in the elections.

“The fundamentals have to do with the voters register. When we finished the biometric registration exercise, we were told that we had around 13 million registered voters and that some cleaning up was to be done of this register. By the time we saw the cleaned up register in November, the electoral biometric register had increased from around 13 million that was announced at the end of the registration exercise, to 14 million.” he said.

He continued that “A total number of 127,000 were added to the register between November and December 2012 and somehow, you are only having this added apparently to the presidential side of the results. Basically, you cannot have two registers for the same election and this is the point that we are making.”

 From: Adu Gyamfi Ameayaw