John Setor Dumelo, the Parliamentary Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency, has urged voters to accept monetary and material inducements from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) but to cast their votes for the NDC in the upcoming elections.
His remarks were made during the NDC’s final campaign rally at Zurak Park in Madina, Accra, on Thursday, December 5, 2024.
“Ayawaso is coming under the NDC on December 7, Dome Kwanenya is coming under the NDC on December 7, and Greater Accra will be swept by the NDC,” Dumelo declared passionately.
He encouraged voters to take whatever the NPP offered, including money, rice, and salt, but to reject them at the ballot box.
“Take everything, but vote against them, because on December 7, we are resetting Ghana in the right direction,” he emphasized.
Dumelo also called on voters to bring their family, friends, and neighbors to ensure a decisive victory for the NDC, symbolically calling for “sending the elephant back into the bush.”
Dumelo’s comments come in the wake of controversy during the December 2 special voting exercise, where Lydia Seyram Alhassan, the incumbent MP and NPP candidate for Ayawaso West Wuogon, distributed rice to voters at the Legon Police Station polling center.
The incident has sparked widespread criticism, with Dumelo lodging a formal complaint with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) over alleged voter inducement.
The matter has fueled public discourse on the ethics of election campaigns as the nation heads to the polls on December 7.
