The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the National Peace Council (NPC) to press the Electoral Commission (EC) to expedite the collation and announcement of the 2024 election results.
At a press conference in Accra on Sunday, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the NDC’s National Chairman, expressed frustration over the delay in results and stressed the need for timely communication from the EC.
“We have consistently raised concerns about the EC’s delay in announcing results. Yet, we have not heard the National Peace Council or any peace organizations calling on the EC to speed up its process of collating and declaring the results,” Nketiah stated.
He further emphasized that, according to the NDC’s own compilation of the EC’s pink sheets from across the country, former President John Dramani Mahama has secured over 56% of the vote.
“So if they have the originals and they have signed and given us copies of the originals they are holding, what prevents them from putting their totals together and announcing?” he questioned.
He urged the EC to communicate any challenges they might be facing that are impeding the collation and declaration of results.
“They should come and tell us if they have any challenges that is impeding the expedition of the collations and declarations. The nation ought to know, but keeping the nation in a situation where nobody knows what is happening, interested parties are bound to react,” Nketiah added.
Nketiah concluded by calling on the NPC and other stakeholders to press the EC to expedite the declaration of results.
“The way forward is for the NPC and all the other actors to call on the EC to expedite action on the declaration,” he stated.
