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OBSERVED: UNUSUAL VOTING TREND IN
KETU SOUTH....NEARLY 40,000 REGISTERED BUT DID NOT VOTE!
Kofi Ellison
As the election returns trickled in, one of my nephews
had his sight trained on the Ketu South Constituency
Parliamentary results because his 'friend' and 'mate'
Fiifi Kwetey, a Deputy Finance Minister was a
Parliamentary candidate for the NDC. I assured my nephew
that Ketu South was perhaps the most "safest" place for
an NDC candidate. But, uncle, "we want a 100% win", my
nephew whined!
In fact, my nephew had traveled to Denu and Aflao to
campaign for Mr. Kwetey! In the end, Kwetey did not get
the 100% but he won by a whopping 77,832 to NPP
candidate's 3,956, according to results posted at the
Ghana Electoral Commission's (EC) website as of December
13, 2012. Ghana's Parliament will not be the same with
such reasonable men as lawmakers, such as the
aforementioned Kwetey and Nii Lantey Vanderpuye (who
claimed he put roadblocks on a road to forcibly
intercept a presidential convoy, and let then president
Mills to step out of his
car to greet people!;
all that done so Nii would impress his 'area boys'!)
In the presidential voting, Ketu South voted 81,880 for
the Mahama; and 5,165 for the Akufo Addo, according to
JOYFM's Election site. In both parliamentary and
presidential voting, other parties and independents
scored in the hundreds. In fact, on the EC website,
other parties had zero; though JOYFM and other websites
give them a few hundreds. The discrepancy between EC and
others such as JOYFM and Peace FM is telling!
What ALARMS me, however, is that Ketu South Constituency
leads the nation in perhaps the number of registered
voters who DID NOT bother to cast a vote on December 7,
2012! According to the EC website, Ketu South
Constituency has 126,659 registered voters. This implies
that nearly 40,000 registered voters of Ketu South DID
NOT CAST A BALLOT on December 7!
WHY? I asked my nephew what explains the big difference
in population between Ketu South and Ketu North. His
response was the age-old adage: "Wofa, travel and see"!
By the way, in contrast, in the neighbouring Ketu North
Constituency, the entire registered voters, according to
the EC is 60,671. Perhaps Ketu South has great
population centers that we may never know of, such as:
Klikor; Agbozume; and Blekusu!!!!
Why did nearly 40,000 registered voters NOT cast a vote
in Ketu South Constituency. Or: Did Ketu South register
people from across the border in Togo who did not make
it to Denu and Aflao in time to vote? Did Ketu South
register the unborn who were NOT delivered early enough
to cast a vote on December 7? Did the Biometric voting
electronic system thwart any effort at hundred per cent
electoral fraud in Ketu South? Does Ketu South represent
a microcosm of the electoral registration fraud that has
permeated the process in Ghana? Is Ketu South the poster
child of electoral fraud in Ghana?
I am sending my nephew on a trip to locate all those
40,000 people in the Ketu South Constituency who did not
vote on December 7. As only a nephew would, my nephew
has consented to embark on this wild goose chase! Fiifi
Kwetey is not happy about my intentions!!!
I congratulate John Dramani Mahama and Fifi Kwetey on
their easy win in Ketu South Constituency; and pray that
they assist all and sundry, including the 40,000 people
who obviously truncated the democratic process in Ketu
South!
Or is, as they say in the American South: Grandma, "we
was robbed"!!!
Kofi Ellison |
