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The Electoral Commission (EC) hopes to declare today the results of the 2020 presidential elections.
This is due to the fact that the Commission did not comply with the 24-hour deadline previously announced by the president, Jean Mensa.
At a press conference where the Commission apologized for the delay, Vice President in Charge of Corporate Services Dr. Eric Asare Bossman said the results will be reported with or without the totals for about two remaining regions.
Providing more details, Dr. Bossman explained that the Commission has so far received compiled results from 14 regions and is working with agents from the various political parties to accumulate the results from the two left.
These two regions, with 18 and 11 constituencies, are said to be the cause of the delay, hence the resolve to go ahead without their full results.
“When the time comes for the Commission to declare and say that of 18 constituencies; 17 or 16 are ready, and the other with 11, 10 or let’s say 9 is ready, and we do the analysis and we realize that the remaining constituencies will not affect the outcome of the elections, which means we will go ahead and declare.
“And as a Commission, we will revisit the numbers once we have them available.
“This is a standard that is made during elections,” added Dr. Bossman.
Meanwhile, before the statement of the Electoral Commission, the secretary general of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Aseidu Nketia, has asked his followers to take to the streets and rejoice because his party has won the recently completed 2020 elections.
Nketia noted that even though the NDC believes it has won the polls, the Akufo-Addo-led government is trying to use the military to turn the results in its favor.
“We have won the majority in Parliament and therefore we must send a strong warning to the government not to try to use the army to change the results because the army has no role to play in electoral matters,” he said.
Mr. Nketia alleged that in Techiman, for example, the military has deployed in an electoral area where they shot two people in an attempt to manipulate the ballot box in favor of the government.
He said the NDC has intelligence that there has been a deployment of military personnel in constituencies like Sene East, Sefwi Wiaso, Tarkwa and other places to change the will of the people.
However, the Commission and the government have dismissed all of these accusations.
