ECOWAS Election Observation Mission Says Ghana Elections Free and Credible

-The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission has described Ghana’s electoral process as free, fair and transparent

– Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she wanted other countries to learn from Ghana

-However, Ghana’s largest opposition party rejected the poll result as fraudulent

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The recently concluded general elections in Ghana were free, transparent and credible, said the leader of the ECOWAS election observation mission.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former president of Liberia, revealed this in a recent television interview on Saturday, December 12, 2020.

Ghanaians on Monday, December 7, 2020, went to the polls to elect a new president and some 275 members of Parliament.

Ghana’s election was free, fair and transparent – ECOWAS Election Observation Mission Photo Credit: John Moore
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More than 13 million voters participated in the exercise that re-elected the current president, Nana Akufo-Addo, for another four-year term. He beat his archrival, former NDC President John Dramani Mahama by collecting 51.302% of the total valid votes cast.

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Mahama and the NDC rejected the election result, claiming that the verdict was “stolen.”

The party deployed a team of investigators to gather evidence of the alleged electoral irregularities and the filling of votes in favor of the ruling PNP.

In his assessment, however, Sirleaf disagreed with former President Mahama and the NDC’s characterization of the polls.

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“If you ask me, I would have to say once again that Ghana has shown an example of peaceful, free, transparent, credible elections,” he said.

He said he wanted other ECOWAS member countries to learn from Ghana’s example and improve their system.

Meanwhile, the women’s wing of the Democratic National Congress (NDC) on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, took to the streets of the Ashanti region to protest against the results of the recently concluded general elections.

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Dressed in red and black garb, the aggrieved women echoed former President John Dramani Mahama’s claims that the election was flawed.

The women described the position of the president of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa before, during and after the elections as “shameful”.

In a previous YEN.com.gh Report, the immediate former president of the National Peace Council, Most Reverend Emmanuel Asante, warned the NDC that it will not be allowed to endanger the peace of the country.

The party, he said, must desist from inciting supporters to the streets and follow the legal channels established for the resolution of electoral disputes.

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