Over the years, Ghana has been applauded globally for her track record of conducting peaceful elections with credible outcomes. The Fourth Republic, which began in 1992 and is marked with the return of constitutional rule, has seen the conduction of seven successive presidential and parliamentary elections, without any major hiccup. Ghana, on 7th December 2020, undertook its 8th successive presidential and parliamentary elections under its fourth constitutional republic, with the goal of electing a new crop of leaders for the next tenure of governance and administration (i.e. 2021 – 2024).
However, the electoral processes were characterized by several allegations and accusations from the political parties especially the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Consistently, the major opposition party, NDC has alleged the connivance of the Electoral Commission (EC) with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) with the aim of rigging the elections in the favor of the NPP, a claim which both the EC and the NPP have denied vehemently. The pre-election period was marked with a series of protests, demonstrations, court actions, press conference mostly by the opposition NDC on the electoral processes. It must be put on record, however that previous elections have all seen their fair share of allegations of bias by the EC in favor of the ruling party.
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