The petition filed at the Supreme Court by the 2020 presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has asked the apex court to annul the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the President-elect by the Electoral Commission. Mr Mahama also wants the apex court to order the EC to conduct a second election with ...

Leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has chastised the NDC for seeking annulment of the election 2020 over errors after detecting an error in the NDC’s petition. The National Democratic Congress, led by legal representatives of the John Dramani Mahama laid an official petition at the Supreme Court, challenging the outcome of the polls. ...

The National Democratic Congress has officially petitioned the Supreme Court to seek legal redress over the outcome of the December 7 polls. The party, led by some executives and legal representatives of John Dramani Mahama laid the petition before the court, December 30, on behalf of former President John Dramani Mahama. Amongst other reliefs, the party is seeking an annulment ...

Manasseh Azure Awuni, a freelance investigative journalist, has received an email from an unknown person threatening to eliminate him like a rat after he published his latest article titled “ERRORtoral Commission and Akufo-Addo’s coup d’état’. In the said article, the journalist tried to explore the anomalies with the Techiman South parliamentary results which are in contention and the EC’s denial ...

The parliamentary results of the Hohoe Constituency has already been gazetted by the Electoral Commission (EC), Energy Minister John Peter Amewu has disclosed. The Minister, who was declared winner of the parliamentary election held in the Hohoe Constituency on 7 December 2020, made this known in a Facebook post on Thursday, 24 December 2020. Mr Amewu wrote: “Hohoe constituency parliamentary results duly-declared ...

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Elfreda Dankyi has rescinded the arrest warrant it issued for Oheneba Boamah Bennie, a presenter with Accra-based radio station Power FM. On Wednesday, the Court issued the warrant for the arrest of Oheneba Boamah Bennie, after he failed to appear before the court yesterday when the case was ...

The Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has stated that the leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) do not have a complete dossier of their pink sheets in the just-ended general election of December 7, 2020, to lead them to court. The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said that the NDC lacked diligence during the polls, hence their inability to compile the primary ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) elect for Anyaa Sowutom, Dr. Dickson Adomako Kissi has faith that a hung 8th Parliament will go a long way to bridge the divide and improve performance between MPs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to him, with such an almost equal number of MPs from both parties in parliament, they (MPs) will have to invest more ...

The Electoral Commission has reviewed its leave notice to staff saying senior leadership of the commission will continue to work while juniors proceed on leave. In a revised statement Wednesday, the commission said: “The Senior leadership and some key operational staff of the commission will continue to work during the break”. It comes after the massive backlash from civil society groups and ...

The Member of Parliament for Sagnerigu Constituency in the Northern Region has hinted of his party’s decision to go to court to seek redress on the December 7 elections. Alhassan Bashir Fuseini, popularly known as Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, said no one can force the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to go to court until they have gathered all their evidence. All the 106 National Democratic Congress (NDC) ...