Former General Secretary for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, secretly collected a refund from the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana without informing the then National Chairman of the party, Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Mr. Andy Kankam has said.
The Editor of the Informer newspaper disclosed on Movement TV’s ‘B3 Kyere Mu‘ show that the fall out between Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Asiedu Nketia aka General Mosquito was due a request by the former for the latter to account for every penny he had received from the EC whilst they were at the Supreme Court to challenge the outcome of the 2020 elections.
He emphasized that Ofosu-Ampofo’s curiosity to know how much the EC wired into the GCB account of the NDC, destroyed the relationship between him and General Mosquito.
“That was the genesis of the problem Ofosu Ampofo had with him (Asiedu Nketia)”, Mr. Kankam said to Gordon Asare-Bediako on the show.
“As at the time they (NDC) were in court exhibiting those gymnastics, they wrote a letter to collect their refund…you (Asiedu Nketia) had gone to collect the refund and Ofosu-Ampofo told him that probity and accountability is the hallmark or foundation of the NDC so account for the money and that was a problem.”
It would be recalled that the NDC wrote a letter to the EC requesting for a refund of filing fees for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections as required by law.
Per the electoral laws of Ghana, a presidential or parliamentary candidate must obtain a minimum of 25% and 12.5% respectively in a general election “to qualify for a refund.”
The opposition NDC, in a letter signed by its general secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah on the instructions of the Functional Executives Committee (FEC), requesting for refund of their filing fee deposits from the EC, accepts that its presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama, did indeed get 47% and Akufo-Addo 51%.
“We would be grateful if you could refund their deposits into the NDC accounts…” the letter directed the EC.
