Rigged Election! Jean Mensa Fraudulently Gifted Mahama’s Votes To 8 Smaller Party Candidates-NDC

The presidential election results gazetted by the Electoral Commission (EC) is fraught with criminal manipulation of figures, where the EC deducted from the votes of the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama and distribute it like confetti among the eight other Presidential candidates who contested the 2020 election.

While at it, the Electoral Commission which also has Bossman Asare and Serebour Quaicoe as Deputy Chairpersons also padded the number of votes that the same Commission had declared for President Akufo-Addo.

These revelation were made by the NDC at the latest of its press conference series on Thursday, December 17, 2020.

According to Dr. Moses Aheto, a Statistician and a mathematics expert at the University of Ghana-Legon, the EC was forced to recalibrate the presidential results once more, following the embarrassing discovery that the percentages behind the December 9, 2020 declaration of Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 elections amounted to over 100 percent.

Also, the last-minute result-massaging by the EC before gazetting was due to the fact that the EC realised that the reviewed results it officially released on December 10, 2020 was not tallying, says Dr. Ahetor who broke down the bolts and knots of the “criminal mathematics” behind the rigged election results declared by Kean Mensa.

Dr. Aheto makes it clear, that per the fraudulent numbers that the Electoral Commission itself has been manufacturing, the election ended up a stalemate and not in a win for Akufo-Addo as the EC would want Ghanaians to believe.

On December 9, 2020, Madam Jean Mensa declared President Akufo-Addo as President-elect in the 2020 presidential election with supposed polling of 6,730,413 votes out of a total vote cast of 13,434, 574. According to Jean Mensa, this amounted to 51.295% of the total valid votes cast.

John Mahama, according to that declaration, had polled 6, 214,889 votes representing 47.366% of the valid votes cast. Ten other candidates then shared 515,524 votes among them. The EC Chairperson had claimed that if even all the 128,018 votes from Techiman South which was still outstanding, were added to the votes of John Mahama, Akufo-Addo would still win the election.

However, it soon emerged that the proper percentage value that the EC’s declaration ought to have given Akufo-Addo was 50.098%; with that of Mahama amounting up to 46.26%. it also emerged that an addition of all the percentages that Jean Mensa had allotted to the Candidates involved amounted to some 100.3% of the total valid votes cast.

In their attempt to explain away the mathematical impossibility, the EC announced on the 10th of December that it had made a mistake and that the error was only in the area of the total number of valid votes cast which it revised to 13,119,460. The percentages, it said, remained. However, it was soon found out that the percentages aggregates still refused to add up. It was also found out that if the votes in Techiman South were added to that of John Mahama, Akufo-Addo would obtain 49.62% of the votes, which falls short of the 50% + 1 votes needed to win the Presidential election. This would set up the race for a run off between John Mahama and Akufo-Addo.

As Dr. Aheto explains, when the EC realized that it had been caught pants down trying to rig the election for Akufo-Addo, it resorted to plan C.

In this plan, the Commission decided to pad the figures obtained by President Akufo-Addo with a conjured 177 extra votes, while 1,707 of the votes that the EC had earlier declared for President Mahama were deducted and shared among the other Presidential candidates who had contested the same Presidential election.

The EC then went ahead to quickly gazette the fraudulent results in spite of the contentions and the likelihood of the challenging  it.

Dr. Aheto points out that what the EC largely gazetted, on December 15, were figures it got from the December 10 correction, and that there is a net effect of 1,247 votes that cannot be explained for.

“So there are positives and negatives and when they cancel out we still have additional value outstanding 1, 247,” he said. He explained that the EC conjured the 1,247 new votes and added to the total number of votes it had earlier declared on December 9, 2020.

Again, he points out that the total number of votes cast gazetted by the EC on the 15th of December, is  quoted as 13,120, 707. However, on the 10th when EC released a press statement making corrections to the votes declared on 9th December, it made it clear that the actual figure total votes cast should have been 13, 119, 460.

Meanwhile, the EC has been exposed further, as it turns out that the gazetted results had different dates. Though the wording of the gazette was very solemn – Declaration of president elect 2020 Ci 135 – Jean Mensa attested that, “given under my hand, the 9thday of December, 2020.” However, the date for the gazette is also stated as December 10, 2020. “So there are two different dates for this alone,” Dr. Aheto said.

In respect of the eight other candidates, the total number of votes declared for them by the EC on 9th December 2020, was 58,029. Then on December 15, when the figure was being gazette, it changed to  59,190, a difference of 1,808 votes.

Also, Between the December 9 declaration and the  December 15th  gazetting, the figure had  changed again from 59,190 on the December 10 figures to 57,943 in the gazette. 

Dr. Aheto said, the detection he and his team have made is that ,an attempt has been made in the figures presented on the December 15 gazette to make up for the 1,707 deducted from the votes of  candidate John Maham and 174 added to candidate Akufo-Addo In the December 10, 2020 correction, in what the NDC described as criminal intent and fraud.

“The effect of the additions and subtractions has resulted in the sum total figure of  1,801 made up of the 1,707 taken from Mahama and  that of the 174 given to Akufo-Addo,” Dr. Aheto noted.