The Tema Metropolitan Electoral Officer of the Electoral Commission (EC), Ofusehene Asante Manasseh, has alleged that he was coerced by prominent members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to declare Ebi Bright as the MP-elect for the Tema Central constituency following Saturday's polls.
According to Mr Asante, both his life and the lives of his officers were threatened by NDC officials and their angry supporters, forcing him to declare the results in favour of the NDC candidate.
He detailed the events in a letter to the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, stressing that the declaration should be nullified.
Mr Asante alleged that the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, Nelson Rockson Defeamekpor, the Deputy National Communications Officer of the NDC, Malik Basintale, and other disgruntled NDC supporters besieged the collation centre and pressured him to declare Ebi Bright as the winner while threatening him. "In fact, Rockson Defeamekpor kept threatening me throughout the collation process, and whenever I disagreed with him on a legal matter, one of their national executives, Basintale, began inciting their supporters, who had gathered and invaded the collation centre, chanting revolutionary songs," he claimed.
