2020 elections: It is possible to know winner within 24 hours – Konadu
Former First Lady and flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, believes the victorious candidate in the 2020 elections could be determined within 24 hrs.
“A lot of counting is done electronically; I don’t see how it cannot be done within 24 hours, at most 36 hours,” She said after casting her ballot on December 7.
In what seems to be a validation of the Electoral Commission’s plans, the former First Lady said it was possible for the winner of the elections to be known by tomorrow.
The women activist lost her husband who was the founder of the opposition NDC on November 12, barely a month to the polls.
The funeral of former President J.J. Rawlings is yet to be held.
Dressed in black mourning clothes, she proceeded to vote a little after midday after which she told the media that the process was smooth.
Mrs Agyemang-Rawlings broke away from the NDC in 2012 after losing the flagbearer race to the late former President John Evans Atta Mills in 2011.
She was, however, disqualified by the EC from contesting the elections that year.
This would be the second time she is contesting the presidency.
Commenting on the performance of the election management body, Mrs Agyemang-Rawlings said the EC Chair, Mrs Jean Mensa, has adopted a “systematic” approach.
“She has been telling us what she is doing and how she is going about it so I have no complaints,” she noted.
There are 12 presidential aspirants with more than 1000 parliamentary candidates.
The twelve include the flagbearer of the NPP – Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, Presidential Candidate of the NDC – John Dramani Mahama, Brigitte Akosua Dzogbenuku – flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Hassan Ayariga of the All People’s Congress (APC), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), David Asibi Ayindenaba Apasera of the People’s National Convention (PNC), among others.
Five of the 17 nominees who submitted their nomination forms with the hope of contesting in the polls were disqualified by the EC.
The five included two independent presidential nominees – Kofi Koranteng and Marricke Kofi Gane, and three political party-sponsored nominees; Akwasi Addae Odike of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Kwasi Busumbru of the People’s Action Party (PAP), and Nana Agyenim Boateng of the United Front Party (UFP).
A total of 17,027,971 voters are expected to cast their ballot in 38,622 polling stations across the 16 regions of the country.