The Ghana Police Service has announced the arrest of Oheneba Nana Asiedu, a presenter of Wontumi Radio/TV, over his claim that the upcoming 2024 presidential election would be held on different days.
In a statement shared on social media, the police indicated that Nana Asiedu, an aide to the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), was arrested for the publication of false news.
“The Ghana Police Service has today, November 23, 2024, arrested suspect Oheneba Nana Asiedu, a Kumasi-based radio and television presenter, for offences including publication of false news contrary to Section 208 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
“The suspect is currently in police custody, and the case will be presented before the court for him to face justice,” the police wrote.
The police earlier invited the presenter over the comments he made.
Oheneba Nana Asiedu claimed that the upcoming general election, the presidential election in particular, would be held on different days.
He claimed that on December 7, 2024, the election would be held for the first people on the ballot paper, including the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who is number 1 on the ballot paper.
“Dr. Bawumia is number one on the ballot, so on 7th December we are going to vote for him first. We are going to vote for the first 7 people on the ballot, then after that we will vote for the remaining 7, from numbers 8, 9, 10, and 11 going,” he said in Twi.
Nana Asiedu even suggested that any person who fails to vote for Dr. Bawumia on Saturday, December 7, 2024, would not get the chance to vote for the other people in the subsequent days.
“So, on 7th December we are going to vote for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and maybe the next day or two days after we would vote for the number 2 on the ballot, then we move to number 3, and on a different day we would vote for number 4. This is going to be the trend.
“Because we are going to vote for the first 7 people on the ballot first, that is why we are going to vote on 7th December… If you don’t vote when it is Dr. Bawumia’s turn on 7th December, you will not get the chance to vote when it gets to the turn of the other people on the ballot. The police and Electoral Commission officers would not give you the chance to vote,” he added.
