NDC rejects results of the 2020 presidential elections

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected the results of the presidential elections as announced by the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa on Wednesday December 9.

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said at a press conference few hours after the declaration of the results that the party has reservations about the way and manner the polls were conducted hence, the rejection.

“We reject the presidential elections as announced by the chair of the Electoral Commission. And we also want to serve notice that the blatant effort even to deny us of a parliamentary majority will be fiercely resisted,” the Tamale South lawmaker said.

From the EC’s collated results, Mr Akufo-Addo polled 6,730,413 representing 51.59% of the total votes cast while his closest contender, John Mahama of the NDC also polled 6,214,889 which gives him 47.36% of the total votes cast.

But Mr Iddrisu said the NDC believe that there are attempts to rob the party of both their presidential and parliamentary victory.

He revealed that John Mahama had written a petition to the EC before the results were announced to voice his concerns over the collation.

“That (petition) was treated with utmost contempt and that we consider unacceptable. We also want to serve notice that the blatant effort even to deny us a parliamentary majority will be fiercely resisted…this evening Ghana’s democracy has come under severe attack and needs some rescue urgently.”

He added, “If not rescued these attacks will foster and grow into future elections and that will disfigure our track record, as a true democratic nation,”