The chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), , has justified the decision of the commission to nullify the declaration of parliamentary election results for three constituencies in the Greater Accra Region.
Speaking at a press briefing at the EC headquarters in Accra, said that returning officers who declared the results for these three constituencies - Tema Central, Okaikwei Central, and Ablekuma North - were forced to do so without following the required processes.
She added that in all of these three constituencies, the winners were declared without the results from a significant number of polling stations.
In the Okaikwei Central Constituency, for instance, the EC boss pointed out that the winner was declared without the results of 41 polling stations and in the Ablekuma North Constituency without the results of 62 polling stations. "In Okaikwei Central, I did mention that 110 polling station results were used to declare a winner instead of 141.