The Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), John Boadu has said the party will reject all faulty Biometric Verification Devices(BVDs) which will be sent across some parts of the country, by the Electoral Commission.
According to him, the party has uncovered an alleged plots by the Election Management Body(EMB) to deploy some faulty devices to their strongholds.
Interacting with the media in Tamale after a day’s Capacity Building Workshop for all NPP parliamentary candidates in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions, Mr. John Boadu raised concerns over the snail pace at which the EMB is transporting election materials to the NPP’s stronghold, insisting that these are part of a grand scheme to frustrate the process on election day.
“I’m not going to accept a deliberate attempt to bring wrong and faulty BVD machines in certain areas that will break down in not time to allow a lot more people vote manually. That one will not be accepted by the NPP,” he said.
He believes majority of Ghanaians will vote for the three-time Flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and hence the party will get more of their candidates elected to form majority in parliament in an Akufo-Addo government.
Ahead of December 7, elections, some regions have started receiving ballot papers along with other logistics for the 2016 polls.
The deployment by the EC’s materials follows a successful balloting of positions of both parliamentary and Presidential candidates for the upcoming elections.
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According to the EC, it is battle-ready for this year’s elections as it has indicated the commission will deliver a smooth conduct of the polls come December 7, 2016.
