The Nine Member 2020 Elections Review Committee that was set up by the NPP to review the party’s performance in the 2020 General Elections has presented its ‘Comprehensive Report’ to the leadership of the party.
The Committee, which was inaugurated on December 4, 2021, by the NPP General Secretary, comprised Hon. Yaw Osafo Maafo (Chairman), Mrs. Ama Frimpomaa Dwomoh (Secretary), H.E. Papa Owusu Ankomah (Member), Madam Elizabeth Ohene (Member), Mr. Fred Oware (Member), Hon Awal Mohammed (Member), Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey (Member), Mrs. Salamatu Forgor (Member), and Hon. Kwame Osei Prempeh (Member).
The Committee had engaged all the relevant stakeholders of the party across the 275 constituencies of the country in pursuance of its mandate.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana officially declared Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential elections.
Opposition leader John Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress, appealed the election outcome after the country’s electoral commission declared on Dec. 9 that he had received 47.4% of the ballots compared with Akufo-Addo’s 51.6%. Mahama, who was president from 2012 to 2017, described the results as illegal, saying the proper voter verification process wasn’t followed. He sought a Supreme Court decision that would declare them unconstitutional, null, and void.
Ghana’s Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the outcome of December’s presidential vote, confirming that Nana Akufo-Addo was re-elected for another four-year term.
All seven judges agreed on the ruling, Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, and said the opposition “has not produced any evidence” that alleged errors and corrections made by the Electoral Commission of Ghana affected the election outcome, he said. “We accordingly dismiss the petition as having no merit.”
The Electoral Commission (EC) confirmed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won 137 Parliamentary seats as against 137 by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) out of the total 274 seats with one Independent MP from Fomena in the Ashanti Region.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
