I write on behalf of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). This letter is written pursuant to an address of the Press by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the flagbearer of our party in the 2016 presidential election, at his residence in the evening of Thursday, 8th December, 2016. The NPP’s attention has been drawn to a … Read more
Following closure of the voting process at 5 pm Wednesday, provisional results have started coming in from various polling stations across the country. Reports from across the country reveal that despite few violent incidents here and there, the 2016 general elections were generally peaceful. Also See: How Voting Went Down at Polling Stations Results from … Read more
Social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, are awashed with results which either claim victory for various candidates or put them in the lead in the elections which ended across the country eight hours ago. Provisional results by some media houses from a little over 100 out of the over 28,000 polling stations across the country … Read more
The campaign for the 2016 Election has reached its peak with about a month to go. There is no doubt that the two major political parties who are in the hot race are doing everything within their powers to win the elections. Notwithstanding the gifts and monies being doled out to the electorate for their … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Mrs Charlotte Osei has called on international stakeholders to begin to hold African politicians to a higher level of scrutiny discourse during African elections. This according to her will promote free, fair and transparent elections on the continent. Speaking at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) on … Read more
The campaign for the 2016 Election has reached its peak with about a month to go. There is no doubt that the two major political parties who are in the hot race are doing everything within their powers to win the elections. Notwithstanding the gifts and monies being doled out to the electorate for their … Read more
The Coalition of Domestic election Observers (CODEO) has expressed satisfaction with the latest Supreme Court ruling ordering the Electoral Commission (EC) to create a portion on the collation forms for all parties and including returning officers to append their signatures after results are collated. In an interview with Citi News, the National Coordinator of CODEO, … Read more
A lawyer and former Director of Research, Parliament of Ghana, Kwesi Nyame-Tease Eshun, has filed a writ at the Supreme Court, exposing a serious loophole in the new Public Elections Regulations, 2016 (CI 94), which the Electoral Commission is using to regulate the conduct of this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. With the current status … Read more
A lawyer and former Director of Research, Parliament of Ghana, Kwesi Nyame-Tease Eshun, has filed a writ at the Supreme Court, exposing a serious loophole in the new Public Elections Regulations, 2016 (CI 94), which the Electoral Commission is using to regulate the conduct of this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. With the current status … Read more