2024 elections: We've the strategy to counter any rigging scheme – Joseph Yamin

The National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Yamin, has served notice that the party has mapped out a strategy to counter any rigging attempts ahead of December's National Elections.

The party has taken note of comments suggesting that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has a strategy to win the elections by any means, including vote theft.

Speaking on the Ultimate Breakfast Show in Kumasi, the NDC's National Organizer, Joseph Yamin, warned that the NDC is prepared to respond in kind should the NPP initiate any suspicious activities.

“When they were coming to power, they said the battle is the Lord's, but now they say the battle is about rigging. Sammy Awuku makes a statement that we will win the election with a strategy. What strategy is that?” he asked.

He told host Julius Caesar Anadem, “If they steal, we will steal. If their means of making Mahamudu Bawumia the president is by rigging, then we will rig.”

Refusing to retract the statement, he insisted, “Do you think I became the national organizer to applaud the NPP's election rigging? I came to win an election for Ghana and the NDC.”

He described what he called the ‘stealing for stealing challenge’ as a revolution to rescue Ghana from the suffocating grip of the NPP.

“If they play it fair, we will play it fair, but if they rig, we will rig. No matter what, the second independence of Ghana will be secured. I am declaring a revolution on your show now. A revolution not with guns but with the thumb.”

“Have you seen what happened in Kenya? The youth will stand up and fight this government through the proper channels.”

“Whatever means they think can make Mahamudu Bawumia president, we understand that system better than them,” he added.

Joseph Yamin further described calls from the NPP’s National Organizer, Henry Nana Boakye, for a presidential debate as “a waste of time.”

He contended that both Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his proposed running mate cannot match the mental capacities of the NDC's flagbearer and former president, John Dramani Mahama, and his running mate, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang.

“How do you bring Mahamudu Bawumia to debate former president John Dramani Mahama? How can you bring NAPO to debate Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang? Before becoming a professor, she had four doctorates and about eight master's degrees. It opens your brain. Do you think just anybody can go to school and achieve that?” he queried.