Richard Jakpa, a lead member of the national security team of the , has declared a firm commitment of the party, to counter any rumoured plan of the governing to manipulate votes in the Ashanti Region during the upcoming national elections on December 7, 2024.

With just 18 days to go until the 2024 general election, he described the Ashanti Region, traditionally considered the 's stronghold, as 'the eye of the storm and the epicenter of the earthquake'.

Speaking on Abusua Nkomo on Abusua FM; Jakpa accused NPP officials, particularly Chairman Wontumi, of attempting to bribe polling agents with substantial sums to alter election results. "Wontumi and his associates want to offer our polling agents bribes of GH¢5,000, GH¢10,000, GH¢20,000, or GH¢50,000, so they alter the figures on the way and provide different pink sheets with manipulated figures.

The original pink sheet would be destroyed and replaced with NPP's fabricated pink sheets containing altered figures for collation".