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.
He further alleged that the NDC’s actions created a climate of fear at the polling stations, discouraging neutral voters and opposition supporters from participating.
“They allowed their boys to provide security for the election in a way that was intimidating and ensured that nobody felt safe to go and vote except their people,” he added.
Ahiagbah also questioned the silence of law enforcement agencies in the wake of the alleged incidents.
“Why haven’t they arrested anybody?” he asked, expressing frustration over what he sees as selective enforcement of the law.
