It has emerged that the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) employed the services of a private institution to collate results of the 2016 general elections to the detriment of party structures.
According to NDC’s Director of Elections, Bede Ziedeng the results that was collated by the system used by the private company crushed compelling the party to revert to the manual system which didn’t really help matters.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, Mr Ziedeng denied claims that the NDC did not collate the 2016 results.
“Unfortunately, it was this infrastructure which crushed soon after it was deployed therefore failed to provide any result for the party and this was alluded to by the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey Committee report. But that does not mean that no results were collated, eventually the party had to fall on the National Election Directorate for the collation of the results.
“On 8th December 2016, the late former Vice President Amissah Arthur sent for the collated results from the election directorate, the collated results of 115 constituencies which was ready by then were delivered to him by the directorate.”
There had been reports that the NDC could not collate its own results in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections so as to compare with that of the Electoral Commission.
The move is said to have crippled the NDC’s effort to know how then incumbent President John Mahama was faring in the polls.
Mr Mahama, then flag bearer of the NDC, lost by more than 9% of total votes to the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo.
Akufo-Addo obtained a staggering 5,716,609 of total votes cast in the 2016 elections, representing 53.84%, to snatch the Presidency from John Mahama, who secured 4,713,277 votes (44.40%).
The NDC also lost more than 40 parliamentary seats to the NPP.
NDC’s performance at last year’s polls is its worst since 1992.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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YOU SEE THIS LYING PARTY ?THE NDC WAS DELARING THAT THEY WERE IN A COMFORTABLE LEAD WHEN THEY HAVE NO RESULTS AT ALL ? SO WHY WAS "THE INCOMPETENT ONE "PUSHING CHARLOTTE OSEI TO DECLARE THAT HE HAS WON THE 2016 ELECTIONS. ?
Do you remember folks when the electoral commission system crushed?So,their system was tied to Ec's.Could'nt steal, couldn't win.Nyaniam.
Some of you just write comment as if you have no brain in your head. Are you a lunatic.
Tribalism, Haters, Looters and Illiteracy is what is keeping the NDC going. If Nana Addo can minimize these attributes then the NDC will be dead. Most clueless young folks are queuing to join NDC because they have inexperience role models who have become rich like Haruna, Ablakwah, Elvis Ankrah, Sam Geoge, Felix Kwakye, Baba Jamal, John Jinapor etc. etc.
NDC, you claimed the system used to collate the results crushed so how come you were in a comfortable lead? What a party, always talking about elections, no policies and directions
Too late to tell us this ananse story about result collation...... So you relied on your crushed system and told the whole world you were in comfortable lead........ NDC is corrupt party.