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A member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) legal team, Abraham Amaliba is the first in his party to have publicly sided with the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the concern they raised about the electronic transmission of results is legitimate.

According to him, the opposition NPP can be described as an alarmist when it comes to discussing issues with the Electoral Commission (EC); thus the way the NPP goes about things make them look as if the EC is doing something untoward.

As a panel member on TV3’s Saturday edition of New Day, lawyer Abraham Amaliba eventually admitted that even though the concern raised by the NPP is legitimate, the opposition NPP could have voiced out their concern at the IPAC meeting.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in a press conference mentioned that “the accepted and agreed recommendation of the Electoral Reform Committee which Asiedu Nketiah was part of is that when the results get to the collation centres at the Constituency levels, hand-held scanners should be used to scan all the results and then transmit them electronically to the national collation centre”.

“This is what all the political parties at IPAC meeting accepted and agreed on that we should buy scanners for the 275 EC officials at the constituency levels and then scan the results electronically to the national collation centre. This is written in plain language and we all agreed to it,” John Boadu pointed.

Without a shred of doubt, lawyer Abraham Amaliba averred that the NPP is behaving as if they are the only party with issue with the EC, stressing that the NDC also sometimes finds problems with the activities of EC but the party’s representative at IPAC always use that platform to address the issue.

“How the NPP go about this create the impression that EC is doing something at the blind side of them. They have a place to voice out their legitimate concern and not always come out to the media when they have a representation on IPAC. We all have a issues but we don’t go about them in this way...they are alarmists,” he posited.