The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, has described as untrue, reports that some officials of the electoral body are helping the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) design an election rigging mechanism ahead of the 2012 polls through the biometric registration exercise.
The Statesman newspaper reported last week that some top officials of the EC have been contracted by the NDC to assist them manipulate the biometric voters� register.
The newspaper named Mr Amadu Sulley, who spoke at the NDC�s retreat last month as one of the EC officials helping the majority party in the country with the rigging plot.
The paper claimed that the NPP�s Asokwa MP Maxwell Kofi Jumah detected the plot. The NDC has already denied conniving with the EC to rig the 2012 general elections.
According to Dr. Afari-Gyan, EC officials did nothing wrong addressing the NDC officials on the biometric voters� register.
He said the NPP benefited from such a gesture in the past and expressed surprise at the posture of the NPP this time round.
�It is not true, it involves Mr. Sulley, I wasn�t in the country at that time and the NDC wrote to the EC that they wanted someone to go and explain certain things to them,� Afari-Gyan stated. �Mr Sulley has done some jobs for the NPP too and even they did not write to us. So I don�t see why the same person who helped you when you needed his help should be vilified like this. �
�We do this all the time, when a party does not understand some issues and they talk to us we can send a director to go and talk to them, but when they talk like this it makes it difficult for us when the parties need services. �
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