Why Kufuor declared himself winner

The Ghanaian Democrat says the NPP flagbearer's pronouncement that he was going to be the next President of the nation was because the party had set in motion a diabolical plan for massive rigging, enabling them to win the Brong Ahafo, Eastern, Greater Accra and Central Regions, otherwise stronghold areas of the NDC.

The paper reports serious collusion between the NPP and some officials of the EC to rig the elections for Mr Kufuor and the NPP.

"Part of the tricks adopted by the EC and the NPP was to be extra nice to the NDC polling agents while they made sure in the constituencies they had targeted to win, they had only NPP sympathisers officiating." A number of minors and juveniles allegedly voted in these 'stolen' constituencies.

Investigations, according to the paper, reveals that everything appeared to be sealed for an NPP victory hence the behaviour of Mr Kufuor 48 hours after the elections, as if he was already the president of Ghana.

The paper says it was a nightmare for Mr Kufuor seeing all his plans torpedoed and his hopes dashed to the ground since his fears were that having failed to win the first round through the backdoor he would not have the opportunity again in the second round when the NDC would have been wide awake to plug all the loopholes that led to the NPP rigging the first round.