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The Electoral Commission has reiterated that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is the president-elect in the just-ended polls.
This was contained in a statement following the spread of a doctored video on social media in which Jean Mensa declared John Dramani Mahama as the President-elect.
The commission has called on Ghanaians to ignore the video as it is not a true reflection of what was declared.
“The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a video in circulation, indicating that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission announced John Dramani Mahama as Ghana’s President-Elect. The Commission states that this video is doctored and is not a true reflection of what was declared.”
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Inexperience & arrogant EC bosses continue to exhibit impunity The Herald
Jean Mensa, EC Chairperson, Sylvia Annor and Bossman Asare
Ghana s Electoral Commission (EC) continues to manifest the lack of accountability and impunity which has engulfed every facet of the nation under President Akufo-Addo.
As sections of the citizens are in the streets across the country demanding clarity from the leadership of the commission led by Jean Mensa and Bossman Asare after their shambolic organization of the Monday, December 7, 2020 parliamentary and presidential elections, they in turn continue to threat the people with contempt refusing to render any explanation.
There have been miscalculation of results, figures in words are not matching with figures in numbers, some parliamentary candidates, including Francis Dodovi, who contested the Suame Constituency seat in Ashanti Region, have had his name and score appearing in the Eastern Region, as having rather contested
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The declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential election has been gazetted by the Ghana Publishing Company Limited (GPCL).
That makes the declaration legally binding and recognised in law.
The gazette was done on December 10, 2020, a day after the declaration by the Returning Officer of the presidential election and Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa.
In the 2016 general election, the EC declared the winner of the presidential poll on December 9, submitted it for gazetting on December 12, while the actual gazetting took place on December 14, 2016.
Content of the gazette
The declaration of the 2020 presidential election, which has been gazetted, is a constitutional instrument (CI 135) signed by Mrs Mensa.
Ghana-Press-Review December 17, 2020 to 11:01 664 APA – Accra (Ghana) The gazetting of the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential election by the Ghana Publishing Company Limited and the tribute by the Head of the African Union Observer Mission in Ghana to monitor the 2020 elections, Mr Kgalema Motlanthe, to late former President Jerry John Rawlings are some of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Thursday.
The Graphic reports that the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential election has been gazetted by the Ghana Publishing Company Limited (GPCL).
That makes the declaration legally binding and recognised in law.