The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it is deploying lawyers to represent the party at all collation centers across the country in the upcoming general election.
A leader member of the NDC legal team, Lawyer Abraham Amaliba, said Friday that lawyers of high repute have been trained and would be posted to serve as representatives of the party in all 275 collation centers in the country.
The decision to employ the services of lawyers this time round, according to Mr. Amaliba was in line with the NDC’s efforts to upgrade the quality of personnel the party assigns to represent it in election processes.
He particularly stated that the party’s deployment of lawyers to all collation centers in this year’s election is to resist attempts by their main political opponent whom he alleged would want to bribe representatives of the NDC at the collation centers to act in their favor.
“We are sending high caliber personnel to the collation centers. We think that we need to send people who are capable of resisting any temptation”
“We have intelligence that indicates to us that the NPP {New Patriotic Party} would want to buy-off some of these persons. Now, when you send a lawyer there who knows what is in store for him when NDC wins, that person will not be tempted to take just a thousand cedis and look the other way.”
“If you send an agent who can easily be swayed, they will buy him off.”
“We are trying to upgrade the quality of personnel at those stations.” He told Samuel Mbura on A1 Radio’s Daybreak Upper East program.
Mr. Amaliba further indicated that his party started training the lawyers for this assignment few months ago; when it got hint of what he said were plans by the NPP to bribe NDC officials who would be assigned to the collation centers.
Touching on a research conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana; as well as other surveys which have indicated that the NPP is likely to win the upcoming presidential election, Mr. Amaliba pointed out that “the true survey is what is coming on December 7.”
He is confident NDC will win the presidential elections despite the multiple research findings against the opposition party.
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Ghana
