Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has reportedly denied reports that he is investigating the Electoral Commission and has found widespread election fraud. In a report from Rainbow Radio, they contacted the journalist and he reportedly denied the claim. READ ALSO: Adwoa Safo Pampers Her Husband With Sweet Words After Afia Schwar Fired Her For Sleeping … Read more
Trust Shatta Wale to do all he can to trend even in the middle of chaos. The self-acclaimed king of dancehall is at it again and he has launched a subtle attack on the electoral commission for their failure to deliver a peaceful election. READ ALSO: You Cannot Win Elections By Braiding Hair And Sharing … Read more
A social media user has slammed the ongoing voter registration exercise being rammed down the throats of Ghanaians by Jean Mensa and the Electoral Commission in the midst of a pandemic. In a post on Twitter, the user notes how the same government who a few months ago was telling Ghanaians to stay home at … Read more
There is a heavy and intimidating police presence at the premises of the Supreme Court as the highest court of the land adjudicates a case brought before it by the NDC against the Electoral Commission with respect to the compilation of a new voter’s register. The NDC which filed a case at the Apex court … Read more
Former President John Dramani Mahama has caused quite the stir in the political realm after declaring that the NDC might not accept the results of the 2020 elections if they lose. According to the former President, although the NDC has been consistent in accepting the results of every elections whether they win or lose, this … Read more
Ghanaian musician, comedian and social crusader A Plus has hit out at the absurdity of the Electoral Commission trying to push ahead with a registration exercise in the midst of this pandemic. According to him, that shows the hollowness and depravity in Ghanaian politics. READ ALSO: Video – How Delay Magically Predicted The Fall And … Read more
Unlike the news circulating on various social media platforms that the Electoral Commission has halted the new voters’ register processes due to ban on public gatherings, the EC has announced that they will still go ahead with plans for the new voters’ register. The EC has announced in a statement that advance plans are being … Read more
All the problems with this failed state called Ghana can be found in this one tiny report – the politicization of everything under this sun.
The Electoral Commission, which in the past at least maintained a veneer of neutrality, has now been turned into another fighting ground for our two main aimless, mindless and power drunk political parties – the NDC and the NPP.
Former Supreme Court Justice and the first Ghanaian to chair the Electoral Commission, Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, has died.
Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe died early Friday in a hospital in the capital, GhanaCelebrities.Com has learned.
Famed ‘Citizen Vigilante’, Martin Amidu, has waded into the chaos enveloping the Electoral Commission, and he’s pointing blame at both the Chair and the former NDC government.
In his now familiar mode of a lengthy editorial, Amidu said Mrs Osei was incompetent and should never have been appointed by the NDC in the first place.
The Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, thinks her position makes her a God who cannot be challenged, according to former APC flagbearer Hassan Ayariga.
The politician, who had a run-in with the EC boss before last year’s elections with the disqualification of his party, has resurfaced to criticise Osei since the recent brouhaha at the EC started.
The integrity of Ghana’s Electoral Commission in the past few days has been a subject of discussion.
With a petition seeking to impeach its Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, over wrong doings, she has also named some of her Deputies for being corrupt and it’s extending to be a legal challenge.
Disqualified 2016 APC Presidential Candidate, Hassan Ayariga says he is in support of the agenda to impeach Charlotte Osei.
Speaking on Okay Fm, he said he has no personal ill feelings towards Charlotte Osei but the E.C Boss is very disrespectful.
Workers at the Electoral Commission have petitioned the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to remove the Commission’s Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, out of her position.
The workers say the Commissioner, who was appointed by the former President Mahama, has mismanaged the body and thus has to be removed from office.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has come under fire from the temporal electoral officers they hired for the 2016 elections for failing to pay them over a month after the elections ended and their services were utilised.
Aside the officers, some companies which provided the Commission with supplies to run the election are also facing the same dilemma.
The Electoral Commission have revealed why they jettisoned the electronic transmission of results in the aftermath of December 7’s polls which led to an unprecedented delay in releasing results to the public.
The Commission revealed hackers attempted to enter their system at the time, and the switch to manual delayed everything and lead to certified constituency results only released by the EC over 12 hours after polls closed.
Actress Bibi Bright is not happy at all with the delay in the release of results from the electoral commission, saying the delay does not make any sense.
The staunch NPP follower, like the rest of the country, have had to wait interminably for the release of the official results from the Commission, which has delayed in that.
The President, John Dramani Mahama, has called for Ghanaians to remain calm and allow the Electoral Commission to carry out its constitutionally mandated duty of declaring the results.
Ghanaians all across the country voted on December 7, yet with nearly two days gone since then the results are still not certified by the national body, with only portions of it trickling in from the EC.
The Electoral Commission website went down for large parts of Wednesday night/early Thursday at a crucial time when Ghanaians were eager for certified results from the Commission.
The website came back up earlier this morning and has started posting up results, and the Commission has revealed that they were down due to hacking attempts.
The Electoral Commission has announced a second day of special voting to be held Sunday to compensate for Thursday’s error riddled first.
The special voting exercise, for the security services, reporters and other essential personnell in the country who would be otherwise engaged on December 7 – was riddled with errors during Thursday’s exercise, leading to mounting pressure on the Commission.
The Elctoral Commission has responded to the challenges plaguing the currently ongoing special voting process, pledging to work to ensure the challenges are solved.
With the security agencies and other essential personnel casting their votes today, some unexpected challenges, including inability to find names in the voters roll, has put a pall over the process.
Despite the conclusion of the flagbearership saga, it looks like the EC are not done facing legal challenges in the run-up to this year’s elections.
The International Standards Journalists Association (ISJA), a Ghanaian professional body for journalists, have sued the Commission for announcing the imposition of a fee to be paid by journalists who require accreditation to cover this year’s election.
The Electoral Commission have announced the seven Presidential aspirants who would contest the December polls after the deadline given by the Supreme Court for those disqualified to remedy their mistakes passed.
Some of the disqualified aspirants failed to correct their mistakes on time, meaning at the end of the day only seven candidates made the final list – including Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom and Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.
Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom and his PPP won the appeal case brought by Ghana’s Electoral Commission against them in the Supreme Court—over a ruling by the High Court that asked the EC to give Nduom the opportunity to amend or alter mistakes on nomination forms which led to him being disqualified.
The Supreme Court ordered the Electoral Commission to extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November, 8 2016 for all disqualified presidential aspirants. The court also ordered a suspension of all lawsuits challenging the EC’s disqualifications of flagbearers, for all those affected to amend the errors on their forms.
Madam Akua Donkor says even though she had decided on getting out of the Presidential race, the decision of the Supreme Court to extend the nomination process has made her change her mind and she would now rejoin the race.
The Supreme Court earlier today (Monday) ruled that the Electoral Commission should extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November, 8 2016 for all disqualified presidential aspirants to get the chance to refile their candidacy.
The Electoral Commission has been dealt another blow in their never ending legal battles to keep disqualified aspirants from the elections after a High Court judge refused a motion set infront of him by the Commission to recuse himself from the case involving the EC and the NDP.
Justice Eric Kyei Baffour oversaw the case involving the EC and the PPP which was won by the latter, leading to flagbearer Dr Ndoum’s reinstatement into the process after his earlier disqualification.
PPP flagbearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom says it would be impossible to have free and fair elections in Ghana this year, what with the referee engaged in a conflict with some of the players on the pitch.
Dr Nduom was one of 12 candidates disqualified by the EC from contesting this year’s polls, citing irregularities in their filing documents. Yet despite securing a victory at the Accra High Court, who ordered the party to be reinstated – the Commission has dragged the case to the Supreme Court, hoping to have the lower court’s decision quashed.
