Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has accused the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of orchestrating voter intimidation during the recently held Ablekuma North parliamentary rerun by replacing state security with party loyalists.
Ahiagbah alleged that the NDC deliberately sidelined official security agencies and instead deployed its own operatives to take control of the electoral environment. "The state was supposed to provide security, but they failed.
Rather, they had the state security demobilised and they mobilised their security," he claimed.
Ahiagbah argued that the rerun was designed to favour the NDC through tactics that made the electoral environment unsafe for opposing supporters. "They know they lost, but somehow they wanted to win, so the only way they can win it is to have this rerun under a certain appearance of security which was not there," he said.
