EC Denies Transferring Vote Of NPP Candidate To Assin North

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it has not received any request from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to transfer the name of a voter into the Assin North Constituency voter’s register.

This is in reaction to the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s allegation that the NPP and the EC are “in a plot to illegally insert the name of an unqualified NPP Parliamentary Candidate into the Assin North Register” to enable him to contest in the upcoming by-election.

In a statement, the EC said the allegations are untrue.

“We wish to state that this is not true,” the statement from the Commission noted.

It also indicated that there has not been any request of that sort from the governing party.

“For the records, the EC has not received any such request from the NPP to transfer the votes of any person. This allegation is false and a figment of the author’s imagination. As usual, it is aimed at maligning the integrity of the Electoral Commission.”

This corroborates the NPP’s reaction to the allegation.

“As publicly advertised, the Party is yet to hold Parliamentary Primaries in the Assin North Constituency to elect its parliamentary candidate for the by-election. It, therefore, beggars belief how the NDC is able to determine our parliamentary candidate ahead of time and to suggest that we are plotting with the EC to illegally insert his name in the Assin North register.”