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General News on Thursday, January 31, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-01-31
Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, National President of the National Democratic Congress
National President of the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, called on party supporters to remain calm after shots were fired against some of the parties. them in a polling station in La Ayawaso, in the western district of Awawaso. Constituency during the Thursday by-election.
Male macho men wearing NSC effigy t-shirts suspected of belonging to a vigilante group attacked voters at Presby JHS polling station and shot them.
Fred Alvis Agbenyo of Accra, who was on the scene to cover the event, said that about 200 macho men became furious when voters began to photograph and film them.
According to Fred Agbenyo, the macho men destroyed the Basic One polling station and took away the polls.
Speaking at a press conference after the incident on Thursday, January 31, 2018, Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo said that the NDC "felt that this seat was not more important that all life lost, so in the circumstances we removed our agents. "
"We call on all our supporters and supporters not to engage in reprisal attacks. We call on all supporters of our party to remain calm, "he added.
He explained that: "The NDC is not the organ organizing the elections. We can not cancel the elections. We decided to withdraw our agents.
"We are sending a clear signal to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo to tell them that the democracy we all fought for is under siege. Today is a very sad day for democracy and the NDC can not and will not tolerate that. "
The party chairman further revealed that the NDC would send a delegation to the office of the electoral commission (EC) and the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to forward their grievances to them. get repair.
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