{"id":262681,"date":"2024-12-08T03:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/08\/withdraw-your-supporters-immediately-from-collation-centres-its-delaying-the-process-ec-begs\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T03:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:45:04","slug":"withdraw-your-supporters-immediately-from-collation-centres-its-delaying-the-process-ec-begs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/08\/withdraw-your-supporters-immediately-from-collation-centres-its-delaying-the-process-ec-begs\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw your supporters immediately from collation centres; it&#8217;s delaying the process &#8211; EC begs"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission (EC) has raised concerns about party supporters inundating collation centres in various constituencies across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the EC, this behaviour undermines the electoral process, stating that by law, political parties are required to have only two representatives at each collation centre for each candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commission&#8217;s concerns follow reports from several constituencies indicating that political party supporters are attempting to force their way into collation centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Briefing the media on Sunday, December 8, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Operations at the EC, Samuel Tettey, stated that the directive from political parties for supporters to converge on collation centres violates established policies and breaches standard procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He urged political parties to immediately withdraw their supporters, stressing that such actions disrupt and delay the collation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe call on political parties to withdraw their supporters with immediate effect and we call on the Ghana Police Service to step in. The actions of the supporters are impeding the collation process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Tettey expressed concern about an incident in the Tano South constituency of the Ahafo Region, where some party agents reportedly forced the returning officer to declare parliamentary results without proper collation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He urged EC officers not to succumb to pressure that might lead to violations of established procedures, stressing that any results declared without following due process would not be recognised by the Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EC Deputy Commissioner reiterated that results for each candidate must be accurately counted and announced at the polling stations before being collated based on the pink sheets already provided to the political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is, therefore, no need for supporters to go to the collation centres as the political parties already have copies of the pink sheet,\u201d Mr Tettey added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although voting ended at 5:00 pm, no official result has been released as of 3:00 am. <\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has raised concerns about party supporters inundating collation centres in various constituencies across the country. 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