Assin North by-election: NDC should know better than to allow Sammy Gyamfi engage in such childish gimmicks— Bempah

The Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ernest Owusu Bempah has said the allegations made by the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi against the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) and the ruling NPP is childish.

He said it was a strategy by the NDC to create the impression in the minds of Assin North constituents that something illegal is being orchestrated by the EC regarding the upcoming June 27 Assin-North by-election.

Addressing the issue with Roland Walker on TV3 Morning Show on Thursday, June 8, the Deputy Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party stated there are well-resourced people in the National Democratic Party who should know better than engaging in what he described as "childish gimmicks."

“This is a childish strategy, he is a lawyer and he is supposed to know better. That is their strategy to create a certain impression in the minds of the people of Assin North.

“The NDC has intelligent men and women, they have big lawyers in the party and they allow this statement to come out,” Owusu Bempah stated.

He further stated the NDC has nothing new to offer constituents of Assin North.

“The NDC has nothing to offer the people of Assin, they were in power but they didn’t do anything for them,” Owusu Bempah said.

Mr. Bempah was responding to Sammy Gyamfi's claim that the NPP had conspired with the Electoral Commission to smuggle Charles Opoku into the voters' roll the EC had refuted.

“This illegal move is to aid the said Charles Opoku to contest in the NPP Parliamentary primaries to select a candidate for the upcoming Assin North by-election.

“Our unimpeachable sources have revealed that contrary to the clear requirement on the nomination form for the Assin North by-election, which demands that a candidate in the election must be a registered voter in Assin North, the said Charles Opoku is not a registered voter in the Assin North Constituency,” Sammy Gyamfi stated.

The EC dismissed the claim in a statement saying, “For the records, the EC has not received any such request from the NPP to transfer the votes of any person. This allegation is false and a figment of the author’s imagination. As usual, it is aimed at maligning the integrity of the Electoral Commission.

“Per Article 94 of the 1992 Constitution, a person does not need to be a registered voter in a particular constituency to enable him/ her to contest an election in that constituency.”