The Director of Elections and Information Technology (IT) for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, says the party was determined to protect every parliamentary seat in the recently concluded general elections.
According to him, the NDC experienced marginalization in the 2020 elections, and as a result, the party entered this year’s polls with that experience in mind to protect its parliamentary seats.
“We have come too far and were determined to protect every single seat because of our previous experience,” he said.
He claimed that the NDC was cheated in the 2020 general elections, which led to Ghana having a hung parliament.
Dr. Omane Boamah alleged that the NPP collaborated with the Electoral Commission (EC) during that election and protected seats in favour of the NPP.
“In 2020, the parliament was not a hung parliament; the parliament that Ghanaians voted for was altered by the NPP through manipulation and collaboration with the EC and security agencies, which led to the deaths of eight people and the loss of seats,” he alleged.
Speaking in a media interview, Dr Omane Boamah disclosed that, based on these experiences, the NDC implemented various mechanisms to win the majority of parliamentary seats.
In the 2020 general elections, the results gave the outgoing President Akufo-Addo the mandate for a second four-year term, but his New Patriotic Party (NPP) shared the then 275 parliamentary seats with the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Each party obtained 137 seats, resulting in a hung parliament. However, the NPP caucus later secured one additional seat from an independent candidate to gain a slim majority with 138 seats.
In this year’s elections, the NDC secured a two-thirds majority in parliament. According to the available results, the NDC obtained 185 seats out of 276, forming the majority in parliament.
Dr Omane believes that the NDC deserved the victory due to the hard work they have put in. He acknowledged the efforts of the party’s various polling station agents as well as the brains behind their strategies used in the 2024 elections.
