Don’t declare 'your' results - EC cautions political parties

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has admonished political parties and the media against declaring the results of the 2020 general election.

 Mrs Mensa stressed that the commission is the only institution mandated by law to declare election results.

She entreated the public to disregard and condemn parties which put out such information since the EC only had the power to do so.

“I think these are critical and delicate issues that even the media must take very seriously and not tolerate because it could lead to confusion. So we entreat the public to ignore such announcements because they can announce but not the declaration.

“But even then, it is illegal for any party to announce that they have won an election, it is out of law and we ask that our friends in the media will treat this with the condemnation that it deserves and not let it have the light of day,” she said as quoted by Graphiconline.

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 She said the commission intends to declare the final certified results in a timely manner and “we hope to do so, God being our helper”

“We call on all stakeholders to remain patient and leave the EC to perform its functions”, Mrs Mensa said in Accra yesterday as part of the Let the Citizen Know media encounter ahead of the presidential and parliamentary polls today.