Losers always complain – EC responds to NDC
The Electoral Commission in the Ashanti Region has rebuffed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it inflated the presidential votes in favor of President Akufo-Addo.
According to the EC, it is not surprised at the outbursts of the NDC since “losers always complain”.
The NDC alleged that the EC ballooned the figures of their political rivals, especially in the Ashanti Region.
They accused the EC of collating figures higher than what was recorded at the regional collation center to push the Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The opposition NDC further alleged that the number of votes obtained by President Akufo-Addo had jumped from 1.4 million to over 1.7 million at the national collation center.
But in an interview, the Ashanti Regional EC Director, Benjamin Bannor-Bio insisted the NPP’s Presidential candidate polled 1.7 million votes in the region.
According to him, the elections could not have been rigged to favor any candidate given the transparency of the polls.
“With these transparent and verifiable processes, there is no way anyone can do anything to affect the results… In the Ashanti Region, nothing untoward happened. If someone is talking about figures being inflated, I don’t know where it’s coming from.
“What I remember is that they (NDC)raised an issue with Adansi-Asokwa constituency that the figure that they collated is not what we announced. So I asked them to come out with their pink sheet. They said they didn’t have it and that someone was bringing it. If it is now that they are bringing it, I don’t know,” Mr. Bannor-Bio said.
“Meanwhile, their agents had signed all the documents… The agents’ refusal to sign the results does not invalidate the results. Losers always complain and that’s how we see it,” he explained further.
EC Declaration
The Electoral Commission declared President Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential elections, securing a second-term which eluded his predecessor, John Mahama.
Chairperson of the commission, Jean Mensa, announced that “at the end of the polls Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo obtained 6,730,587 being 51.302% of the total valid votes cast.
The EC chair put the valid votes at 13,119,460.
Jean Mensa said the results exclude the results of Techiman South constituency which is in dispute. But she explained that if that result is gifted to John Mahama, it would not make a difference.