Electoral Commission Hands Over Doctored Summary Sheet At Homicidal Techiman South

The legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) disputing the declaration of the Techiman South Parliamentary elections results for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it has detected criminal forgery in the pink sheets that the Electoral Commission (EC) grudgingly gave them.

Lawyer Abraham Amaliba, Director of Legal Affairs at the NDC Headquarters, says the summary results sheets that they received may be sheets from another election that has been cleverly swapped.

“The name on that sheet was a different constituency and then cancel it and rather, wrote Techiman South on it. So that one, we think that we will have to deal with it during cross-examination,” he alleged.

If the allegation proves true, then the EC will be liable for perjury and guilty of attempts to deceive the court.

It would be recalled that the EC had evaded every attempt by the NDC to inspect the controversial pink sheets following what the NDC described as a fraudulent declaration of the winner for the parliamentary seats in favour of the NPP’s Martin Adjei Korsah.

Even after the court had ordered the EC to present the documents to the NDC, the EC had delayed the process.

According to Abraham Amaliba, the delays were deliberate and calculated to choke the NDC’s case with technicalities, but the NDC has outsmarted the EC.

The tricks by the EC, he reveals, included deliberate power outages by the government (deliberate dumsor) to ensure the NDC does not get to photocopy the documents on time.

“The photocopying was done on our pickup, with our photocopier colour together with our generator. So I suspect that the reason why they were delayed and not going into the register’s office was they were communicating with the electricity people so that they could put off the lights at a certain point,” Amaliba told Accra-based Joy FM.

 “the courts gave us up to 4:30 pm and so at 4, they would have said that you are not able to put a coffee line out our faults, but we had also outsmarted them.”

The NDC’s Parliamentary Candidate for the Techiman South Constituency is challenging the declaration of that Constituency for the NPP’s Candidate even though he and the party says he had clearly won the election by a wide margin.

In line with its argument, the NDC and the Candidate ensured to gather copies of all original pink sheets from the election which has since been kept under lock and key by the party.

And as it prepares to present the pink sheets as evidence in its case against the EC at the Wenchi Court, the NDC demanded of the EC top provide it with original copies of the pink sheets that it used to declare the NPP’s Candidate as the winner.

 In response to this request, the EC resorted to pussyfooting, causing the court to order it to make those original pink sheets available for the NDC’s inspection.

Even after this order the EC still delayed, and then eventually released the pink sheets at the eleventh hour. These pink sheets are what Lawyer Amaliba is alleging that they have been doctored.