The Electoral Commission (EC) has withdrawn from Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary internal elections of the National Democratic Congress following a court injunction. The EC wants the NDC to resolve its internal disagreements and outstanding legal issues before it can supervise the elections for the party. This came to light on Wednesday afternoon after a meeting […]
The Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) says the ongoing revenue mobilisation exercise being carried out by the ECG is not politically motivated. Samuel Dubik Mahama says concerns that the exercise is being targeted at some party’s political base are unfounded and should be treated with the utmost contempt. He explained that […]
Parliament has invited the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) to brief the Committee of the Whole on a new Constitutional Instrument (C.I.) ahead of Election 2024. The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has directed that the Chairperson herself, Jean Mensah should appear for the briefing. According to the Speaker, the EC must […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) says barring any impediment, it will declare results of the 2020 Presidential Election 24 hours after polls. The Director of Electoral Services at the Commission, Dr Serebour Quaicoe, said the EC was determined to declare the results by the time Ghanaians go to sleep on December 8. He told the Ghanaian Times in […]
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) over the latter’s decision to extend the registration of voters to campuses of Senior High Schools which have not been gazetted as registration centres. The NDC has filed the suit at the High Court (General Jurisdiction) Friday, listing four reliefs, along with orders the […]
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has abandoned its relief seeking to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from going ahead with the new mass voter registration exercise. The NDC’s suit at the Supreme Court is based on two premises – first, that the attempt by the EC to compile a new registration exercise was unconstitutional and […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) does not want to accept the existing voter Identity cards as a proof of Ghanaian citizenship in its planned new voter registration exercise because, there are still people who used health insurance cards to register and are still on the register, according to the Director of Elections and Research at the […]
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is participating in the Electoral Commission (EC) pilot voter registration exercise. The party has therefore directed its regional executives to attend the programme, an indication that when the registration finally takes of later parts of the month the NDC party may participate against its avowed opposition. The exercise commenced today, June 2, […]
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) seems to have made a u-turn on its stance on the compilation of a new voters register by the Electoral Commission for the 2020 elections. The Party has written to the Electoral Commission, requesting for the Training Manual for voter registration officials, ahead of the commencement of the exercise […]
Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces has chastised the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for being ‘troublesome’. “The people have already intended to be troublesome and it’s bad; it’s sad,” he said in reaction to the hullabaloo surrounding a new voters’ register. The former National Security […]
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has submitted a Constitutional Instrument (C.I) to parliament to pass a legislation that will enable citizens to use the Ghana Card and the passport for registration into the voters’ register. Earlier, the Electoral Commission scheduled the registration for 18th April, 2020. However, due to the ban on public gatherings by […]
The Electoral Commission has accused the largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), of consistently engaging in the spread of falsehood to court disaffection for the Commission. The NDC had in a press conference on Thursday, addressed by the National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, claimed the EC was conniving with government and other state agencies to […]
