Mussa Dankwah, Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, has expressed the opinion that allegations of forgery of the Electoral Commission (EC) would not have arisen if the Commission had, as required by law, posted copies of pink sheets at the various polling stations.
He expressed shock that no one is in the possession of the original or true results from the Ablekuma North constituency.
The constituency is now in contention with both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) claiming victory.
Several recollection exercises organised to determine the winner of the parliamentary election have proven fruitless.
Reacting to these issues, Mr. Dankwah posited that Ghanaians would have taken photos of the pasted results at the polling stations of the EC had they pasted them as required by law.
In a Facebook post, he noted that there should be some level of punishment for those who failed to act in accordance with the law regarding the 2024 general elections.
He stated that the NPP, which is now in opposition, would have to support these reforms without the NDC opposing them now that they are in government.
In his view the elections and the post-elections challenges have taught us good lessons that should inform us about the kind of reforms needed at the Electoral Commission before the 2028 elections.
Read his post below
If EC officials had pasted copies of the pink sheet in all polling stations as required by law, there would not have been accusations of forgery. No one else has the true results from the polling stations that are in dispute in Ablekuma North? This must be some sort of a joke, or?
Citizens would have taken photos of the results pasted and could have provided the EC with independent source of polling station results because if theirs and those held by the political parties can’t be trusted.
But what is the punishment for violating election laws in Ghana? For example failure to paste the results at the polling stations?
This elections has indeed thought us good lessons and should inform us about the kind of reforms needed at the ELectoral Commission before the 2028 elections which I hope the opposition will support strongly now that they are in opposition. But should we expect the NDC to oppose the reforms now that they are in government? ????????
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
