The Electoral Commission (EC) has said the 2020 elections results declared and announced at all the polling stations and collation centers were a true reflection of the will of the people.
Former President, John Dramani Mahama, claims the deployment of military personnel to collation centres forced some electoral officers to declare results in favour of the governing New Patriotic Party.
"This is also false. It never happened. Nowhere did the Military influence the declaration and announcement of results. It is not true. The 2020 processes were widely participatory. The media, local and international observers all participated in the elections. The results declared and announced at all the polling stations and collation centers were a true reflection of the will of the people,” Deputy Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Bossman Asare said at a press conference on Monday.
"The Media and Observers also picked their data right from the ground directly from the 38,622 polling stations and the collation centers and the results were no different from what the EC declared,” he added.
According to the EC, to buttress the fact that the results were a reflection of the will of the people, it is important to indicate that all the major networks - Peace FM, UTV, Adom FM/TV, Joy News/FM, Kessben, Sky, GBC, Atinka Media collated their own results and it was the same as what the EC declared.
“These networks called the election for the President before the EC declared. The parallel voter tabulation employed by CODEO also confirmed the results declared by the EC.”
The EC has called on the good people of Ghana to disregard this allegation of the military influencing the declaration and announcement of results as it is false and untrue.
“In the interest of our democracy we call on the Former President to provide evidence of where the influence by the Military occurred,” Dr. Asare Bossman added.
John Mahama says Soldiers forced EC to declare results in NPP’s favour
Former President, John Dramani Mahama, claims the deployment of military personnel to collation centres forced some electoral officers to declare results in favour of the governing New Patriotic Party.
The former President says the 2020 election was not transparent, as touted by the Electoral Commission and government.
Speaking on Global FM in Ho during his “Thank You” tour to the Volta Region, the former president said, although the 2020 elections were manipulated in the NPP’s favour, there is hope for the NDC to win the 2024 elections.
“But for a lot of scheming that took place, the NDC would have won the election. I do believe that we did win, but a lot of things went untoward and so even though power did not come into our hands, it does not mean we do not have the prospects of winning.”
“We won the majority in Parliament, but you saw what happened on the day. Many of the polling centres injected soldiers and forced the electoral officers to pronounce results that were not real.”
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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