Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has directed aggrieved defeated parliamentary aspirants to bring to fore evidence of cheating.

According to Mr Afryie Ankrah, aspirants who have attributed their defeat vote-buying must back their claims with facts to have their concerns resolved.

He stated that statistics available to the party show that the election recorded a 98 percent success rate thus rumours of irregularities and rigging are untrue.

Speaking on Citi TV, the former sports minister urged aspirants who are aggrieved by the outcome of the polls to officially lodge a complaint with the party and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the election processes were indeed skewed to favour their opponents

“There were issues that people complained because they lost. But first of all, they have not made complaints to us. As a party, we don’t work based on rumours. We have heard them but it is only proper that formal reports will be presented to the party with evidence so if there are any investigations, we carry it from there. What I find curious and interesting is that all those contestants who were in the race were confident that they were going to win until they lost. Whatever claims they have, they should bring it to the fore,” he said on the Point of View on Wednesday.

In the heat of the election, there were claims of vote-buying in some areas with aspirants deploying various means to influence aspirants to vote for them.

But, Mr. Ankrah says although the monetization of politics is gradually becoming a hard bone to break, the reckless peddling of misinformation on vote-buying is likely to tarnish the reputation of the party and that of the election it fairly organised.

“So far we haven’t received any specific complaints, in terms of money. But I think the issue of money in politics is something that has to be looked at in a broad context. My difficulty is that if we’re not careful with the way the conversation is being packaged, subconsciously it’ll make it appear the entire NDC election was characterized by money. If we don’t put things in their proper perspective, we’ll turn out misinforming the public. If you look at the figures, it was 98 percent successful. So we can’t say this election was fraught with money issues, it is not a correct assessment of the election. “