The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 elections, John Dramani Mahama, has described Jean Adukwei Mensa as the most incompetent Chair the Electoral has ever had. Mr Mahama told supporters of the party in the Bono East Region on Wednesday, December 16 that since the inception of the Fourth Republican constitution, Jean Mensa has been […]
The opposition National Democratic Congress has accused the Electoral Commission of padding votes in various polling stations to help President Akufo-Addo win the 2020 polls. According to the party, several polling stations recorded significant ballot calculation errors which favoured the incumbent in the polls. At a press briefing in Accra Thursday, the National Communications Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi, […]
Some minority political parties and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that made of the membership of Inter Party Resistance Against New Voters Register (IPRAN) have added their voice to the call of the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) for independent audit of pink sheet used to declare the winner of the 2020 general election by the Electoral […]
The Northern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress ( NDC), Ibrahim Mobila, has instructed the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, to within 2 days, declare former president John Dramani Mahama the president elect. Addressing the media during a demonstration in Tamale, he said the party will decide on what to do should Jean Mensa fail to change the results […]
An International Bio-statistician, Dr. Justice Moses Aheto has rubbished the figures as contained in the EC Chair Jean Mensa’s election results declaration and exposed the EC with what he called the real data and true reflection of the Presidential results. Dr. Aheto who pegged Candidate Akufo Addo at 49.654% and Candidate John Dramani Mahama, at […]
A group calling itself concerned Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Akwatia is blaming the National Women’s Organizer, Kate Gyamfua, for the party’s loss of the Akwatia Parliamentary seat. Addressing the media Tuesday, the group said Kate Gyamfua never liked and supported the outgoing Member of Parliament, Mercy Adu Gyamfi alias Ama Sey, therefore, deployed all tactics to […]
Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has described the conduct of the Electoral Commission (EC) in the just-ended election as worrying. He said the incompetence of Jean Mensa is why the EC is not getting the figures of the polls right although it has been more than a week since the […]
Governance Expert, Professor Albert Puni has called for a change in the way Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission (EC) and the other commissioners are appointed in Ghana. He said the current status quo where the president appoints the commissioners creates an impression that they become subject of control by the head of state, a situation he said, […]
Law lecturer, Justice Srem Sai, has criticised the media and election observers for not coming clean about their inability to properly validate some of the contested results declared by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the December 7 elections. He said while the validity of EC’s collated and published figures for the election results are being challenged, the […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo may have won the presidential elections but the success of his next government hangs in a balance, as he is on a brink of being supervised by a hung parliament. As it stands, there is no clear majority in parliament per the data released by the Electoral Commission. The NPP caucus which […]