The former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Adenta, Kojo Adu Asare has appealed to the Northern Regional Police Command to begin investigations into the recent �Pink Sheet� scandal and relay the truth to Ghanaians.
Kojo Adu Asare speaking as a panel discussion on Peace FM�s �kokrokoo� programme Monday morning, wondered how the Electoral Commission would surreptitiously fiddle with the details on the pink sheet when all copies were distributed to all the eight parties which partook in the 2012 elections.
According to him, it is improbable for the EC to manipulate its officials to allegedly falsify the facts since the parties involved in the Supreme Court case have in their possessions duplicates of the declaration forms.
The opposition New Patriotic Party has since December 28, 2012 challenged the electoral results in its petition at the Supreme Court. The plaintiff�s petition to the Supreme Court claimed that over 200,000 votes have been affected by absence of signatures of the Presiding Officers in the affected Polling stations and since this was an irregularity, are therefore praying the Court to annul all such votes.
Three officers of the Savelugu District Electoral Commission were on Sunday, arrested by the Northern Regional Police Command for conniving and allegedly bribing Presiding officers in the December 2012 Elections to sign unsigned Pink Sheets, two months after the elections.
The New Patriotic Party of the Savelugu constituency was reported to have picked intelligence on the actions of the culprits and acted swiftly to warrant their arrest.
The party believes the culprits were tasked to manipulate the details on the Pink sheets which will invariably affect the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election results, for which reason the NPP is challenging the declaration by the Electoral Commission which saw President John Mahama sworn-in as fourth President of the Republic.
However, Kojo Adu Asare believes the issue is gaining �unnecessary prominence� because the pink sheets whether signed or unsigned cannot be forged when the political players in the December polls have been furnished with copies.
Explaining to host Kwame Sefa-Kayi, he said; �We�ve ended the elections and everybody was given a copy of declaration forms. It was not only one political party which was involved in the elections. We have eight political candidates and all the eight candidates (that�s Presidential) were given declaration forms; whether signed or unsigned. All of them had copies�how can someone sign a different paper and present it in court as a signed paper when it�s different from what all the other candidates are holding; which will be accepted as authentic. I don�t see it happening�, and so, charged the Police to �investigate it. When they finish investigating, they should let us know the motives for doing such thing.�
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