President John Dramani Mahama is scheduled to address the media Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 10:00am.
In a statement signed by his
spokesperson, John Jinapor, President Mahama will “focus on pertinent
issues arising from the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.”
The president, who is also the candidate
for the National Democratic Congress in the 2012 Elections, expressed
worry over the inability of eligible voters to cast their ballots as a
result of failure of the verification machine to confirm their details.
He, thus, suggested that the Electoral Commission allowed those with valid voters’ IDs to cast their ballots.
This aroused the displeasure of the
opposition New Patriotic Party, who accused President Mahama of
interfering with the EC’s operatio