{"id":446404,"date":"2017-12-12T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/we-wanted-afari-gyan-to-steal-2008-elections-in-our-favour-npp\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:07:46","slug":"we-wanted-afari-gyan-to-steal-2008-elections-in-our-favour-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/we-wanted-afari-gyan-to-steal-2008-elections-in-our-favour-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"We wanted Afari Gyan to \u2018steal\u2019 2008 elections in our favour &#8211; NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>XYZ <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/95247262.295.jpg\" alt=\"Gyan Afari987\" title=\"Gyan Afari987\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Former EC boss<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513109266_842_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">An acting deputy Director of Communications for the ruling New patriotic Party (NPP), Vincent Ekow Asafoa, has disclosed that there were frantic efforts to get the then Chairperson of the  Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kojo Afari Gyan, to call the 2008 polls in favour of their then candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>He made the revelations to Prince Minkah on the Morning Xpress on Radio XYZ Tuesday morning, when commenting on the corruption allegations leveled against the current EC Boss, Charlotte Osei.<\/p>\n<p>He said the former General Secretary of the party, Kwabena Agyapong could testify to how they tirelessly pushed with their power of incumbency to make Dr. Afari Gyan announce Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner of the polls, even though the results were not favouring him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2008 Afari Gyan had the glorious opportunity to call the elections for Nana Akufo-Addo even though Nana Addo was trailing. He had every opportunity. For those of the people who were at the Strong room at the time, the Kwabena Agyapong\u2019s and other people will tell you that there were machinations to make sure that Afari Gyan [would] call the elections for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,\u201d he revealed and said the commissioner rather stood his grounds and declined to do so unlike what his predecessor, Charlotte Osei did during the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were to say Mrs. Osei, who is standing trial at a committee set up by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, on claims or allegations, could not emulate her predecessor, Dr. Kojo Afari Gyan who had independently steered polls that saw the victory of four (4) heads of state in the Fourth Republic.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vincente, the corruption allegations leveled against Mrs. Osei should be thoroughly investigated because her \u201cinsubordination\u201d caused the nation huge sums of monies as a result of some cancellations of electoral processes that erupted ahead of the 2016 electioneering amidst controversies of misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the Electoral Commissioner since the time she was appointed has shown some sort of insubordination . . .So it tells you that in the begining the Electoral commissioner has been doing things that have not favoured the people of Ghana. . .  In the build up to the 2016 elections, anything that the Electoral Commissioner did, the NDC was supporting it. .  . There have been things or the acts and the inactions of the Electoral Commission over the past has shown that indeed she (Charlotte Osei) had an agenda,\u201d stated the Special Aide to the Vice President\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations<\/p>\n<p>Some yet-to-be known staff of the Electoral commission (EC), in July, petitioned the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, over an alleged misappropriation of funds by Charlotte Osei after she had asked Joseph Asamoah, EC\u2019s Director of Finance to proceed on leave over an alleged misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n<p>A committee by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, was eventually set up to probe the EC Chair and her two deputies, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwa over the alleged misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n<p>The three appeared before the committee which was heard in camera, on Monday, December 11, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Osei is to answer to six out of 27 allegations leveled against her by her two deputies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 66 updated by: 66 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017 Source: XYZ 2017-12-12 Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Former EC boss An acting deputy Director of Communications for the ruling New patriotic Party (NPP), Vincent Ekow Asafoa, has disclosed that there were frantic efforts to get the then Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kojo Afari Gyan, to call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We wanted Afari Gyan to \u2018steal\u2019 2008 elections in our favour - NPP - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/we-wanted-afari-gyan-to-steal-2008-elections-in-our-favour-npp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"We wanted Afari Gyan to \u2018steal\u2019 2008 elections in our favour - NPP - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017 Source: XYZ 2017-12-12 Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Former EC boss An acting deputy Director of Communications for the ruling New patriotic Party (NPP), Vincent Ekow Asafoa, has disclosed that there were frantic efforts to get the then Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kojo Afari Gyan, to call the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/12\\\/we-wanted-afari-gyan-to-steal-2008-elections-in-our-favour-npp\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/12\\\/we-wanted-afari-gyan-to-steal-2008-elections-in-our-favour-npp\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"We wanted Afari Gyan to \u2018steal\u2019 2008 elections in our favour &#8211; 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