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Assin-North: Court grants injunction against NDC MP-elect

The NDC Member of Parliament-elect for Assin North James Gyakye Quayson has been injuncted from being sworn in as an MP. This means that the NDC will lose one MP as the country’s parliament prepares to transition to the 8th parliament. The court injunction makes the National Democratic Congress(NDC) able to swear in 136 MPs-elect as against New Patriotic Party(NPP)’s ...

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2020 Election Petition: We’re not asking the Supreme Court to overturn results – NDC

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is currently in the Supreme Court challenging the 2020 presidential election results to ensure the Electoral Commission (EC) complies with the electoral laws, contrary to information that it is seeking to have the results overturned in its favour. “If the EC will be willing to comply with the law that will end the matter. ...

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2020 Elections: I’m being advised to forgo the issue – Mahama

Former President John Mahama has said he and other people who have expressed reservations with the results declared by theElectoral Commission following the recently-held polls, are being impressed upon to let go. “Increasingly, many of us who are attempting to understand how theElectoral Commission arrived at the results of this last election are being advised to forgo the issue—in the ...

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Gabby Otchere Darko taunts NDC after identifying error in petition

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. ...

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Full Document: NDC petitions Supreme Court over election 2020 results

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 ...

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‘If conditions demand that we eliminate rats like you, we will’ – Manasseh receives death threat

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 ...

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‘Duly-declared’ Hohoe parliamentary results already ‘gazetted’ – Amewu

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 ...

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Court rescinds arrest warrant for Power FM presenter

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 ...

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