Election Results Re-collation Not New- EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Jean Mensah has asserted that the re-collation of election results is not happening for the first under her leadership.

According to her, the exercise has been in place since the inception of the 1992 Constitution with the first in 1998 in a District-level election.

In a data put out by the Commission following the disputed re-collation Parliamentary results in seven constituencies, it said re-collation happened for the second time in 2004 under the leadership of Afari Gyan.

“Re-collation after the declaration of results is not new, it has happened before.”

In the 1998 exercise, it said, “During the District Level Elections in Dompoase Kokwaado Electoral Area in the KEEA District, the Commission, under the leadership of Dr Afari Gyan, overturned an earlier declaration and went to declare the right candidate as the winner.”

In 2004, it explained that four constituencies had their parliamentary results overturned through re-collation of results.

The four were Tolon, Pru, Yapei-Kusawgi, and Zabzugu constituencies.

“The EC, under the leadership of Afari Gyan, re-collated and overturned parliamentary results for Pru Constituency and declared the NDC candidate as MP-elect instead of the NPP candidate who had earlier been declared winner.”

The EC over the weekend, at the order of a court, re-collated seven Parliamentary results in the 2024 Election.

These seats, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has claimed victory; however following the re-collation, they were all declared to have been won by the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

This has not gone down well with the NDC which has slammed it as an “undemocratic practice”.

“The NDC strongly condemns these undemocratic practices and reminds all involved that electoral crimes have no expiry date and that the date of reckoning would come,” it said in a statement.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini