Election watch

Trust is a delicate commodity in politics, often difficult to earn but easy to squander. In the realm of Ghanaian politics, this question takes centre stage as Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President and now flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party, sets out to rebuild the trust and confidence of the Ghanaian electorate in him. Before the 2016 election, ...

Over 200,000 delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) across all 275 constituencies in the country are voting today to elect a presidential candidate to represent the party in the 2024 general elections. Ten members, including an incumbent MP, the Vice President, former ministers, and MPs, declared their intention to represent the party but were reduced to five by an ...

Liberian President George Weah will face off against challenger Joseph Boakai for the second time in a Nov. 14 runoff vote, election officials in the West African nation said Tuesday. The results of the first round announced by Liberia’s National Elections Commission are the closest runoff since the end of the country’s back-to-back civil wars. Weah, a former international soccer ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has warned the protagonists of the recent elections in Liberia against any premature proclamation of victory and warned that it would crack down on those responsible for the violence. Liberians voted on 10 October to choose the successor to their president, George Weah, who was the favourite for re-election, as well as ...

Liberians began voting Tuesday on whether to give football legend George Weah a second term as president, with peace among voters’ main concerns in a nation still scarred by back-to-back civil wars. An hour before polling got under way at 0800 GMT, hundreds of people were already waiting to cast their ballots at voting stations, mostly set up in schools, ...

An executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Nurudeen Hamidan, has warned all party agents in the ongoing by-election in the Kumawu constituency not to sign pink sheets until voting ends. Mr. Hamidan gave the warning to party agents after the NDC claimed that it had detected some pink sheets being used for the elections have already been signed even ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has deployed all 47 MMDCEs in the Ashanti Region, a good number of MPs, and Deputy Ministers as polling agents for the ongoing Kumawu bye-election. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is also underscoring its high stakes in the by-election by fielding high-ranking party officers and MPs to give the polls a close watch. North Tongu ...

A member of the Advisory Board of Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), Reverend Fred Deegbe fears the stay in office of two newly appointed board members of the Electoral Commission (EC) will adversely affect the confidence Ghanaians have in the electoral body. He said the newly appointed board members are politically tainted and are not inclined to serve in ...

Women’s rights advocacy organization, ABANTU for Development has called on the Parliament of Ghana to as a matter of urgency pass the Affirmative Action Bill into law before the upcoming 2023 District Assembly elections. The call was made at a press conference in Accra organized by ABANTU for Development with support from African Women Development Fund (AWDF). Held on the  ...

Provisional results from Nigeria’s disputed presidential election showed Bola Tinubu from the ruling party closing in on victory, a Reuters tally of votes in 33 of the country’s 36 states and the federal capital Abuja showed on Tuesday. Tinubu’s potential victory extends the All Progressives Congress party’s (APC) grip on power in Africa’s top oil producer and most populous nation, though he ...