In an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb’s George Ayisi, Patrick Boamah addressed the controversy surrounding the Okaikwei Central constituency, describing the declaration of Baba Sadiq as the MP-elect as fraudulent.
The senior NPP member stated that his opponent did not raise any concerns on the night of the election while results were being collated.
However, he later accused them of altering and falsifying some pink sheets in an attempt to challenge the Electoral Commission’s authenticated results.
“Fraudulent nature of a declaration. We had 140 polling stations plus one from the special voting which I won. He didn’t raise any issues on Saturday after the election when the results were being entered. Sunday morning, they scattered the polling center and on Monday when we went to the regional office, they went to alter some pink sheets to challenge the EC’s results,” he said.
Boamah strongly condemned the incident, stating that the actions of his opponent and his team were dishonest attempts to undermine the will of the voters.
He also stated that Sadiq’s actions misled his party supporters into believing he had won the parliamentary election, despite the reality being otherwise.
“That is a fraudulent act and very dishonest on their part. That is what he used to mislead his party folks. Why didn’t they challenge the results at the collation center in the presence of their lawyers and everybody but went to a house in Tesano, had a meeting and decided to do the unthinkable thinking they were not going to be uncovered,” he said.
Patrick Boamah was declared the winner of the seat after a re-collation of the results following a High Court directive that compelled the EC to finalize results from 31 outstanding polling stations.
He secured 21,099 votes, defeating Baba Sadiq of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who garnered 19,368 votes, leaving a victory margin of 1,731 votes.
Baba Sadiq was initially declared the winner of the seat sparking disputes and subsequent legal action.
Following the declaration, the NPP sought redress in court and the High Court ordered the EC to re-collate results from 31 polling stations that had not been included in the initial tally.
However, the re-collation affirmed Boamah as the winner, consolidating the NPP’s hold on the seat.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
