Following the results from the constituencies , the opposition New Patriotic Party in a press conference held earlier today, Thursday December 8 says they would not accept any fabricated results from the Electoral Commission—not after they have commanded an incontestible lead in the presidential race while the party has also won 170 seats.
Sammi Awuku, National Youth Organiser of the NPP is still beating himself to understand the reasons why the EC has not declared the results yet.
According to him, the EC’s silence only spells suspicion and foul play. He said:
“We are disturbed by the deliberate silence from the national collation center of the electoral commission of Ghana for over 15 hours. The youth of Ghana, have voted overwhelmingly for a new leader.
The youth of Ghana have decided who their new leader should be and the youth of Ghana overwhelmingly voted for Nana Akufo-Addo.
The youth have spoken and we will not accept massaged results that will trickle in after 15 hours of silence.
Again since polls closed 5:00pm yesterday, votes have been counted at the polling stations, collated and in most cases announced at the various constituency collation centers for both presidential and parliamentary elections.
Media houses have declared results at both the polling station and constituency collation centers for both presidential and parliamentary elections.
Today nearly 94 per cent of the NPP’s official copies and the EC’s statement of polls and declaration of results forms commonly known as pink sheets, had been received and declared at collation centers across the country.
We are also fully aware of a similar percentage of pink sheets have been received and collated by the Electoral Commission of Ghana at its constituency collation centers nationwide.
Curiously the commission is telling the general public that it is yet to receive until just some few minutes ago any collated results from the 275 constituencies nationwide.
This is curious because even in the absence of the E transmission in the past, the commission was faster and more efficient in receiving and acknowledging receipt of fax summary sheets of results from eight regional offices”.