Charlotte Osei was sacked to cover up NPP’s 2016 elections rigging – NDC

The Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor has alleged that the Akufo-Addo government sacked Mrs Charlotte Osei as Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson to cover up rigging of the 2016 by his party NPP.
Mr Charlotte Osei was removed as the Chairperson of the EC on the grounds that she violated the Legislative Instruments that regulate Commission.
Her removal was triggered by unknown persons from the EC’s office who petitioned the president, according to the state prosecutor.
Speaking on Kumasi-based Nhyira FM, the NDC executive said, “NPP did not win the 2016 election. They took power on the grounds of rigging”.
According to him, after every election results are gazetted and published two weeks later but two years on the line, the 2016 presidential results have not been to gazetted.
“Mrs Charlotte Osei was removed because the NPP realized when she is still in office she will set a committee to investigate and make report which at the long run will disgrace the NPP. Hence the NPP had to sack her”. Mr Otukonor alleged.
 
The allegation by the NDC deputy scribe follows that of a former National Organiser of the party, Kofi Adams that the party had enough evidence that the 2016 elections were rigged by the then opposition, NPP.
Kofi Adams had claimed that his party turned down an option to challenge the results of the 2016 presidential election despite knowing very well that the NPP won the election through dubious means.
Mr Adams was emphatic that the 2016 presidential election was ‘heavily rigged’ to favour the then opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] led by its flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
“We knew something was wrong when results started coming from various regions. Considering the tension that was building on then [in 2016], if we had challenged the results, Ghana wouldn’t have been what it is today,” he said in an interview with NEAT FM.
 
Source: Atinkaonline.com with additional files from mynewsgh