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+ Spokesperson for the petitioner’s legal team, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong has stated that the announced presidential results later rectified by the Chairperson of Electoral Commission (EC) were never gazetted. Speaking at a press briefing after the Supreme Court hearing on Thursday, she indicated that there was only one declaration and gazette of the 2020 Presidential election, thus the December 9 declaration. The gazetted results according to Marietta Brew, were never revised or revoked after the EC corrected the figures for the presidential results. “There is only one declaration, 9 D...

EC Disowns Social Media “gazetted” Election Results

Graphic Online BY: Isaac Yeboah 30.5k Shares 705 The Electoral Commission has branded as fake, documents doing the rounds on social media purporting to be copies of gazetted Election 2020 parliamentary results. The Commission per a statement issued Thursday evening urging the public to disregard the documents being shared on social media said its gazetted parliamentary results of the December 7, 2020 election results are available and obtainable at the Assembly Press in Accra. The statement said the document being mischievously shared on social media and purporting to be the gazetted results...

The Electoral Commission (EC) says the supposedly gazetted Parliamentary Election results been widely circulated on social media by especially supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is fake.

Per law, the EC has the mandate to gazette the results of every presidential elections after it has declared the winner. In a report by the Ghana News Agency, the EC is said to have done this to give legal backing to the results which is being contested by the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to the source, the Commission is mandated by Constitutional Instrument (CI) 127, Regulation 44, Sub-regulation 11, to gazette the results, saying; “Without that, any case from a person or a group about the election results sent to court will be thrown away. ...