The Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Sammy Darko rejected claims that it is unfairly focusing its investigations on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over allegations of vote buying.

Speaking in an interview on Monday, February 9, 2026, the Director of Strategy, Research and Communications at the OSP, Sammy Darko, said the office’s actions are driven solely by legal requirements and available evidence, not political affiliation.

He explained that the decision to probe incidents linked to both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries and the recent NDC Ayawaso East parliamentary primaries reflects the OSP’s commitment to impartial enforcement of the law. According to him, claims of bias stem from a misreading of the office’s earlier statement.

Mr. Darko noted that the cases were presented in sequence and not arranged to favour or disadvantage any political group. He added that greater emphasis was placed on one particular case because it involved an alleged attack on an OSP officer who was carrying out official duties during the electoral process.

In a statement released on Sunday, February 8, 2026, the OSP announced the launch of investigations into suspected vote buying during the January 31 NPP presidential primaries and the February 7 NDC Ayawaso East parliamentary primary.

Reports from the NDC contest in Ayawaso East indicated that some delegates allegedly received items including television sets, ice chests and food from the camp of Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed. Meanwhile, allegations from the NPP presidential race suggested that cash was distributed to delegates by supporters of various aspirants, with some delegates expressing dissatisfaction after claiming they were excluded from the alleged payments.

“This statement is not just about what happened at Ayawaso East or the NPP primaries. It is generally that we are reminding Ghanaians that vote buying and vote selling are prohibited by law and that we must refrain from it, In the two paragraphs, you will understand the basis of what we are doing in both instances. So, I don’t understand how some people were reading the statement, because they said we have only one paragraph for the NPP, and the rest is for the NDC. It doesn’t add up, It is purely that we stated in paragraph one as NPP and paragraph two as NDC. In paragraph three, we talked about what we are investigating in those instances,“We dedicated a little more to a particular candidate because that candidate had assaulted an OSP officer in the performance of this work during the election,” he said.