The Electoral Commission (EC) has asked Ghanaians to be patient as it is working assiduously to announce the winner of Saturday's general election.
It said a robust mechanism to receive the results from the Regional Collation Centre and to the National Collation Centre at the Commission's Headquarters involved a laborious process which must be exhausted before the results was declared. "By convention, we have been able to declare results within 72 hours after the close of polls," she said adding, that "it is only 23 hours following the close of polls on Saturday, especially where we have received requests and some questions from the general public as to when to expect the results." "I'm happy to announce that the results have come in from the Ahafo Region, and we are expecting that from here on we will start seeing the results coming in, we thought that it was important to update our citizenry on the process for the collation of results as it pertains to our CI-127.
Addressing the news conference in Accra yesterday, the chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, it was quite an elaborate process that involved the political party agents at every step of the way.
Additionally, she said "it also involved observers, the media, and citizens as well where the process emanates from the pink sheets, and it's important to note that the pink sheets form the basis of the results that are announced, whether it is at the constituency level for parliamentary candidates or whether it is at the national level for presidential candidates." Continuing, she said, "from the constituency collation centre, the results travel to the region, where party agents are also present.
