False and without basis - EC blasts Franklin Cudjoe over claims on SALL

The Electoral Commission (EC) has responded to IMANI Africa president, Franklin Cudjoe, on the inability of SALL (Guan constituency) to vote in the 2020 parliamentary elections.

The EC in a statement dated May 15, 2024, said the long-stated claims by Cudjoe, that the people of Santrokofi, Apkafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL) were deliberately disenfranchised, were false and a case of misinformation.

"The Commission never disenfranchised the good people of the newly created Guan Constituency. It is not in our interest to do so," the statement signed by Acting Head of Public Affairs, Samuel Boadu read.

The statement gave a sequence of processes that the EC undertook in the lead-up to the 2020 vote to ensure the people could vote in the parliamentary election.

Among others, when the Legislative Instrument was laid in Parliament in October 2020 through to their engagements with Parliament and the Local Government and Rural Development Ministry.

The EC stressed that it could not create a new Constituency when Parliament was on recess and when they needed to lay necessary processes before the House to do so.

"How can any well-meaning person accuse the Commission of disenfranchising the good people of SALL when the facts are so clear?

"It is unfortunate that IMANI continues to peddle falsehood and untruths about the Commission at every point and turn. His narrative that the the Commission disenfranchised the people of SALL, now the Guan Constituency is FALSE," the statement stressed.

Read the EC statement below:

INABILITY OF SALL (GUAN CONSTITUENCY) TO VOTE IN THE 2020

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION- DISREGARD FALSEHOOD AND

MISINFORMATION FROM IMANI PRESIDENT pic.twitter.com/I8tC9qmDgi

— Electoral Commission Of Ghana (@ECGhanaOfficial) May 15, 2024