Prof. Michael Kpessa-Whyte
A senior research fellow at the University of Ghana, Prof. Michael Kpessa-Whyte, has claimed that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, re-collated the results of the 2020 presidential election multiple times.
According to him, Jean Mensa did the multiple re-collations to help the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, win his second term in office.
Prof. Kpessa-Whyte, who was one of the agents of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the EC’s national strongroom for the 2020 election, accused the commissioner of repeating the same tactic to help the NPP win seats in the just-ended 2024 general elections.
“Jean Mensa single-handedly re-collated presidential results multiple times in 2020 to legitimize a manufactured victory for @NAkufoAddo. She is back re-collating some parliamentary results in 2024 in favour of the NPP,” he wrote in a post shared on X.
The academic indicated that people who are mute about the current happenings should do the same after the swearing-in of President-Elect John Dramani Mahama, saying, “Let no one see evil after 7th January 2025.”
His post comes as the Electoral Commission went on with the re-collation or continued collation of the parliamentary election results for nine disputed constituencies.
The initial winners of the parliamentary elections for the nine constituencies in question were either nullified after their declarations or not declared at all by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC).
Before the re-collation and re-declaration exercise, the NDC claimed it had acquired a court order that barred the EC from going on with the declaration.
The party has held the position that the electoral laws of the country state that once election results are declared, the only way they can be challenged is in the courts.
They contend the re-collation and re-declaration exercises were illegal.
After the exercises on Saturday, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidates in seven respective constituencies were declared winners.
Four seats that were initially declared for the NDC, namely Obuasi East, Okaikwei Central, Tema Central, and Techiman South, were re-declared in favour of the NPP.
The Nsawam Adoagyiri, Ahafo Ano South West, and Ahafo Ano North constituencies, which were initially incomplete, were also declared in favour of the NPP.
Two constituencies – Ablekuma North and Dome Kwabenya — are, however, yet to be determined.
Jean Mensah single-handedly re-collated presidential results multiple times in 2020 to legitimize a manufactured victory for @NAkufoAddo. She is back re-collating some parliamentary results in 2024 in favour of the NPP.
Let no one see evil after 7th January 2025.
— Michael Kpessa-Whyte (@kpessawhyte) December 22, 2024
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