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Hundreds of women supporters of Ghana’s main opposition NDC today caused a major human and vehicular traffic across the streets of Kumasi to protest against the 2020 election results.
This is part of a series of action after the party’s flag bearer John Mahama rejected the general election results after he lost to incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo.
Led by its National Women Organizer of the Party, Hannah Bissiw, the NDC supporters, clad in red attire marched through the principal streets of Kumasi from the regional party office at Amakom to picket at the office of the Electoral Commission near the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council.
They were however stopped by security personnel after the two-hour march where Madam Bissiw addressed reporters.
“We are Ghanaian women and citizens of this nation, and we voted in the 2020 polls, but we feel that the Electoral Commission rigged the elections in favour of President Akufo-Addo and if we don’t get up, this country would turn into something that we all won’t like it.”
“So we are asking Jean Mensa to come back and sit with the political parties to correct whatever mistakes it did because if she does so, President Akufo-Addo will not be declared president.”
Post-election tensions
The EC announced President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the December 7 polls on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, despite concerns raised by the opposition NDC.
Mr. Mahama subsequently declared the party’s unwillingness to accept the outcome of the just ended general elections.
Describing the outcome as the “real stolen verdict,” Mr. Mahama at a press conference on Thursday, December 10, 2020, said the party will audit the outcomes of the poll to inform its next step.
The NDC across the country has held different protests to express their displeasure with the election results.
Protests were held in areas such as Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region, Ashaiman in Accra, Okaikwei North in Accra among others.
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