NDC women pour on the streets in Kumasi to protest election results

Women supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti region have hit the streets in protest of the results of the 2020 polls.

According to the women, who converged at the party’s regional headquarters in Kumasi, the electoral commission rigged the polls in favour of President Akufo-Addo and the NPP.

The protest is being led by the party’s national women’s organizer Dr Hannah Bissiw and the Ashanti regional woman organizer Mrs. Gloria Huza.

Meanwhile, the United Nations, on Monday, called on the two main parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress(NDC), to uphold their commitment to respect the Peace Pact signed on December 4, in which they inter alia, committed to seek redress through constitutional and legal means for any electoral grievances.

Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, and the Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS, in a Press statement, thus urged Ghana’s judiciary to ensure that election-related litigation brought before it is handled promptly with transparency and credibility such that its decisions fully reflect the will of the people.

NDC rejects results of 2020 polls

The NDC has rejected the results of the polls which gives the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo over 51% of the valid votes cast. They have accused the Electoral Commission of rigging the polls for the incumbent.

NDC flagbearer John Mahama has publicly rejected results of the polls.

“In respect of the Presidential elections: the facts and figures available to us from pink sheets and other evidence that has unfolded across the country, indicate that numerous steps have been taken to manipulate the results of the election in favour of the incumbent President. This calls into question the credibility of one of our most important institutional pillars of democracy—the Electoral Commission. It is now obvious to many objective minds that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission has been used to manipulate results from the various constituencies and in that process seek to subvert the sovereign will of the Ghana People.

“We will not accept anything short of a declaration of the legitimate results, which point to an NDC Parliamentary Majority. 3 My Brothers and Sisters, advisedly, since the inception of the Fourth Republic, final election results have always been declared within 72 hours to allow for a thorough and diligent collation”.