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IMANI-Africa President Franklin Cudjoe has condemned the Electoral Commission (EC) for the inconsistencies that characterized the outcome of the December 7 elections.
The Electoral Commission (EC) corrected on Thursday the total of valid votes cast during the declaration of results on December 9.
EC President Jean Mensa declared New Patriotic Party (PNP) presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo as president-elect based on a total of 13,433,573 valid votes instead of 13,119,460.
In a statement Thursday, he explained that the initial figure of 13,433,573 used in his statement is incorrect.
But Franklin Cudjoe believes that Ghana’s electoral management body has sunk to its lowest ebb following the EC’s behavior of continually changing the election results.
“I finally agree with the NPP when it says that it will contest the results of five electoral districts. The EC has not been helpful.
“I really couldn’t believe that the EC kept changing the figures on its website after admitting to basic mathematical mistakes. Now I have come to the conclusion that he is not only incompetent, he is very corrupt !! “Cudjoe wrote in a Facebook post on Friday.
The main opposition leader of the NDC, John Mahama, has vowed to challenge the outcome of the elections in court, after the highly contested elections that he believed were stolen for president-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Therefore, it has refused to admit defeat, citing overwhelming electoral fraud that destroyed hopes for clean polls in the 2020 general election.
“It is for this reason that my colleagues and I at the NDC will not accept what we know to be a fraudulent outcome of this election,” he said, adding “and we will take all legitimate steps to reverse this farce of justice.” he said at a press conference in the capital, Accra.
— kasapafm
