Video: Campaign team of Agric Nsima Chief demand EC to declare him winner of Council of State election in Ashanti

Campaign team of the Chief of Agric Nsima , Nana Nkansah Boadu Ayeboafo are demanding the Electoral Commission (EC) to declare their candidate the winner of the Council of State election in the Ashanti Region.

The election of the region’s representative to the Council of State turned chaotic when some machomen out of nowhere came to the election grounds and disrupted the process, destroying ballot papers and boxes.

Addressing the media on the happenings of the elections at the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, the campaign team of the Nsima Chief expressed surprise over the actions of the thugs and accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of being behind the attack.

The immediate Municipal Chief Executive of the Tafo Pankrono municipality, Lord Innusah Lansah, who addressed the media claimed that his candidate, Nana Nkansah Boadu Ayeboafo won the election and appealed to the EC to declare him winner.

“In total we had about 86 people who were supposed to vote and all of them came to exercise their franchise. So after sorting, counting was underway and it was up to 47th count for Nana Nkansah Boadu Ayeboafo when the NDC machomen paraded and ransacked thr entire process, vandalising the ballot boxes and tearing up the the ballot paper,” he narrated.

“The rules were that without accreditation no one was going to be given the chance to enter the premises. We saw machomen numbering closed to about 200 at the premises without accreditation and it was as if they were even conducting the election.

And these were the same people who plunged the entire process into that chaotic scenes.”

He continued, “our opponent (NDC ), having realised Nana Nkansah Boadu Ayeboafo had gotten 47 and was enough to be declared the winner, these thugs stormed the premises to cause commotion in the full glare of the police on duty.”

“To our surprise we had a lot of policemen and women at the scene but they (the thugs) were able to overcome them (police) to do what they came to do like we witnessed in the general elections.

The campaign team which comprises of some assembly members vowed to make things difficult for the nominees of President John Dramani for the various MMDAs.

Lansah stated, I think they have started vetting people who are vying for the Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), they will come and meet us at the local level. If this simple exercise could not be done how, do you expect us to sit down and confirm your nominees?”

Nana Nkansah Boadu Ayeboafo to cater for medical bills of assaulted journalists
Lord Innusah Lansah disclosed that Nana Nkansah Boadu has given the insurance that he will contact all of the journalists assaulted and pay their hospital bills.

Five journalists who were filming the incident for their reports were beaten to pulp and ending them to hospital. The victims are Gideon Nana Peprah, GhanaWeb, Akwasi Oppong, Angel FM, Kofi Adade, Oyerepa Radio/TV, Henry Kotei Henry, Oseikrom Dawuro newspaper, and Charles Awuah Mensah alias Papa That, Lawson FM/TV.

The victims were attacked were attacked in the presence of the police while the ballot papers were being sorted and counted by electoral officers.

Reliable sources closed to the this portal indicate that one of the victims, Gideon Nana Peprah who seek medical attention at the Emergency Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH ) was discharged late last night at about 10:30pm.

He was on his way back to the Hospital earlier today when the swiftnews3.com contacted him to ascertain his conditions.