“In this election, the NPP will also declare our own results,” that is the contention of the largest opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP).
The party’s campaign manager, Peter Mac Manu told a group of supporters in Takoradi in the Western region that the party will resist any force that will attempt stopping the countermove set by the NPP in this election.
“…the IGP cannot stop us. Whether you are the Electoral Commission, whether you are a peace or security officer, whether you are a polling agent, whether you are a chief, you cannot stop NPP from declaring results.”
But the EC has hit back at the NPP saying no person has the right to counter the results declared by the EMB on election day as the body is the only mandated body established by law to declare election results, the Western regional director of the EC Steve Opoku Mensah said.
Speaking to Radio Maxx, Mr. Mensah said “political parties have no right to declare election results…election results are always declared by Electoral Commission of Ghana and not political parties.”
