EC puts re-collation of election results at Tesano Police Depot on hold

Re-collation of election results for some constituencies at the Tesano Police Depot in Accra has been put on hold until further notice, the Electoral Commission (EC) has announced.

There are some constituencies whose collation after last Saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections did not follow the legal process as enshrined in C.I. 127. There are others where collation on Election Day could also not be completed.

The inability to collate and declare results on Election Day which led to the re-collation at the Tesano Police Depot, according to the Electoral Commission was due to disruptions of the collation processes by political party supporters on Election Day and the days following.

Therefore, the Electoral Commission and the Election Security Taskforce agreed for election officers and political party agents to move to the Tesano Police Depot to re-collate the results for those affected constituencies.

At a press conference in Accra Friday morning [Dec 13], the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia for instance questioned the legality of the re-collation. 

He described the process as illegal and inconsistent with Ghana’s electoral laws.

“We in the NDC believe that what is happening at the police training school amounts to illegality. It is not founded on any electoral law, nor is it based on any consensus reached by the parties and the Electoral Commission,” he stated.

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In the statement signed and issued on Friday [Dec 13, 2024] evening by Samuel Tettey, EC Deputy Chairman in Charge of Operations, the commission explained that those re-collation exercises "have been put on hold until further notice."

Attached below is a copy of the statement from the EC

HALTING OF RE-COLLATION OF PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS' RESULTS

The Electoral Commission wishes to inform the General Public that the re-collation of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections' results which was ongoing at the Tesano Police Depot for constituencies whose collation did not follow the legal process as enshrined in C.I. 127 as well as constituencies where collation on Election Day could not be completed have been put on hold until further notice.

The inability to collate and declare results on Election Day which led to the re-collation at the Tesano Police Depot, was due to disruptions of our collation processes by Political Party supporters on Election Day and the days following.

It is instructive for the Public to know that the Commission informed Political Parties of the change in location to the Tesano Police Training Depot after agreement with the Inspector General of Police and his Team.

Indeed all the Agents of the Political Parties observed the process yesterday, which resulted in the collation and declaration of results for the Fanteakwa North, Akwatia and Suhum constituencies.

We urge all stakeholders to collaborate with the Commission as we carry out our mandate.