The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has indicated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has disclosed that the party could not retrieve its pink sheets from the Techiman South Constituency.
According to him, the returning officer at Techiman South confirmed to him that the pink sheets were burnt.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament when the House reconvened on Monday, 14 December 2020, Mr Iddrisu condemned the spate of casualties recorded during the elections.
He said: “I was in Techiman personally and I was not pleased with what I observed: that an electoral officer cannot even make available to a political party declared results or results to be declared”.
“That cannot be so in our multi-party constitutional democracy”
“Whether a returning officer or a district officer to claim somewhere that his copy meant for a political party, the NDC got burnt. We are still following through but what is significant is the loss of lives in Techiman. We had to visit one or two bereaved families arising out of shooting which resulted in loss of lives.”
“That remains a negative blot on the conscience of our democracy to choose our leaders, lives must not be lost and lost needlessly. There are still contested outcomes in some other constituencies across the country, in Sene.”
“We still have some dark clouds against what has been declared by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.”
He, however, congratulated the newly-elected Members of Parliament, “particularly the old ones who have had the privilege and honour of the electorate in their various constituencies to re-elect them to serve them.”
Source: Gossips24.com
