Assin North by-election: OSP must investigate where NDC got GH¢30m from to buy votes – Bempah

Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ernest Owusu Bempah has said that the National Democratic Congress spent GHS30 million which is equivalent to 3 million dollars to win the Assin North by-election.

He accused the NDC of buying votes in the Tuesday, June 27 by-election.

Mr Owusu Bempah told journalists in Accra on Thursday, June 29 that the NDC paid 1000 cedis to voters to vote for their candidate.

“They were paying people to go and vote, so they give tone voter 500, if the person gets somebody to come and vote they add 500 making 1000

“This was an election they bought. Before the declaration, the number of items, fertilizers, weedicide, agric spraying machines, and bag of rice for each voter and that one was almost 5m Dollars. With propaganda and lies they spent $1millon.”

I am calling on the Office of the Special Prosecutor to investigate where the NDC got this money from to buy the votes,” he added.

During the by-election, the NDC’s candidate James Gyakye Quayson beat Charles Opoku of the NPP and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) to reclaim the seat in the Tuesday, June 27 by-election.

His votes margin as compared to the 2020 results is over 1,300. In that election, Mr Gyakye Quayson polled 17,498 votes to beat NPP’s Abena Durowaa Mensah, who polled 14,193.

Mr Gyakye Quayson, who was declared invalidly elected in 2020 by a Supreme Court judgement, will return to take his seat in Parliament.