The of Ghana (EC) has indicated that the death of , the presidential candidate of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), for the pending 2024 presidential elections, posed a novel challenge for the commission.
Speaking in an interview on GHOne TV on Monday, November 18, 2024, the Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Corporate Services, Dr.
Eric Bossman Asare, indicated that the challenge emanated from the fact that there were no existing laws on how to deal with instances of presidential candidates' deaths.
He said that the existing laws only cover the death of a parliamentary candidate, adding that the commission had to rely on these laws after the advice of its lawyers. "It was a challenge.