2024 Polls: Interior Minister dismisses rigging claims
On August 26, 2024, 9:49 PM
Minister for the Interior, Henry Quartey, has denied claims that he is hatching a plan to manipulate the 2024 elections.
He said the ministry was tasked to protect the citizens and the country and not to plunge it into chaos.
The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, had alleged that the Interior Minister held covert meetings with the Deputy Inspector General of Police and the Director of the National Intelligence Bureau(NIB) to rig the December 7 elections.
However, on Monday, August 26, Mr Henry Quartey described the allegation as unfortunate.
He also threatened to seek legal redress if Mr Gbande did not retract the statement.
âI think this statement is very unfortunate coming from a Deputy General Secretary of a big political party like the NDC. He is making a very wild allegation. He is inciting the public. We have to get him to retract.
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âIf he doesnât do so, then I will put legal redress to show beyond all reasonable doubts that the Interior Minister, National Intelligence Bureau and the Deputy IGP are not planning to rig elections. This cannot continue,â he said.
He added that President Akufo-Addo has made it clear that he wants to leave the country the way he met it and therefore, he believes that violence is not the best way to win elections.
The Interior Minister further assured Ghanaians that the NPP would calmly hand over power to the next president if they lost the 2024 elections.
âIf people think that they want us to go, we will hand over peacefully but so long as we live and we remain in power and the security apparatus and architecture of this country remains, nobody will misbehave in this country. If they do, we will let the law deal with them,â he said.
