We had been decided to guard each parliamentary seat – Omane Boamah – Ghana News On-line
The Director of Elections and Information Technology (IT) for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) within the 2024 elections, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, says the social gathering was decided to guard each parliamentary seat within the just lately concluded normal elections.
According to him, the NDC skilled marginalization within the 2020 elections, and because of this, the social gathering entered this yr’s polls with that have in thoughts to guard its parliamentary seats.
“We have come too far and were determined to protect every single seat because of our previous experience,” he mentioned.
He claimed that the NDC was cheated within the 2020 normal elections, which led to Ghana having a hung parliament. He alleged that the NPP collaborated with the Electoral Commission (EC) throughout that election and guarded seats in favour of the NPP.
“In 2020, the parliament was not a hung parliament; the parliament that Ghanaians voted for was altered by the NPP through manipulation and collaboration with the EC and security agencies, which led to the deaths of eight people and the loss of seats,” he alleged.
Speaking on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM, Dr Omane Boamah disclosed that, based mostly on these experiences, the NDC applied numerous mechanisms to win nearly all of parliamentary seats.
In the 2020 normal elections, the outcomes gave the outgoing President Akufo-Addo the mandate for a second four-year time period, however his New Patriotic Party (NPP) shared the then 275 parliamentary seats with the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Each social gathering obtained 137 seats, leading to a hung parliament. However, the NPP caucus later secured one further seat from an unbiased candidate to realize a slim majority with 138 seats.
In this yr’s elections, the NDC secured a two-thirds majority in parliament. According to the obtainable outcomes, the NDC obtained 185 seats out of 276, forming the bulk in parliament.
Source: myjoyonline.com
