Tag Archives: ELECTION

The Akpafu and Lolobi Traditional Areas formerly in of the Volta region have jointly petitioned the Electoral Commission over why they were made to abstain from the parliamentary elections on December 7. The two traditional authorities in a letter to the EC are requesting for clarity on their voting rights …

The Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs has added its voice to the calls for peace in the aftermath of the December 7 elections. Members of the House led by their President, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, who is also the Paramount Chief of the Osu Traditional Council, are demanding …

A total of eight lives, including three minors were lost during the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. They are Zakaria Samira, 12, Musah Fuseini, 14 Botwe Tackie, 16, Abdallah Ayarek, 18; Tajudeen Mohammed, 41, Dompreh Emmanuel, 36, and Abass Ibrahim whose age was not stated. About 15 other electorate also …

The National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for Sene West has retained his seat as the Member of Parliament for the constituency. This comes after the Electoral Commissioncounted the ballot papers from the Tato Battor Polling Station B which were prior to this locked up at the Techiman police station following a …

The former Member of Parliament for Akwatia Constituency, Baba Jamal, has revealed that the National Democratic Congress will not proceed to court to protest against the results of the Techiman South Constituency because the party does not have evidence to challenge the case in court. According to him, since the …

European Union observers in the just ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Ghana have given pointers to how results were manipulated. According to observers, results were not publicly displayed in 17 polling stations they observed. The observers however noted, “voting was conducted in a generally peaceful atmosphere and voting procedures …

Calm has been restored in Tamale this morning, Friday, 11 December 2020 after police fired warning shots to disperse some supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who poured onto the streets to support their flagbearer’s rejection of the 2020 parliamentary and presidential election results last night. The youth, who chanted …

A preliminary report by the European Union Election Observation Mission Ghana 2020 (EU EOM) has said the media – both state-owned and private – were polarised in their coverage of Ghana’s just-ended general elections. “The media reported freely on the elections in a polarised environment”, the findings presented by EU …

Accra – 9 December 2020 – Ghana’s 2020 elections were organised in an efficient manner and took place in a peaceful atmosphere, according to the preliminary findings of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM). However, shortcomings identified by previous EU EOMs, mainly related to the transparency of campaign finance …

Pressure is mounting on the Chairperson of Electoral Commission(EC), Jean Mensa to justify the result she declared for the Presidential Election last Wednesday, because her figures were wrong. A research institution named Research and Grant Institute of Ghana (REGIG) insists the declared results for the presidential election are suspicious and the EC must …