Dr Lartey Concedes Defeat And Congratulates Nana Addo On His Victory
The presidential candidate of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Presidential candidate, Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has emerged as the first flagbearer in the 2020 presidential race to concede defeat and to congratulate President Nana Akufo-Addo on his “victory.”
The Director of the Communication at the Presidency Mr. Eugene Arhin, in a Facebook comment said Dr. Lartey, has called President Nana Akufo-Addo to “congratulate him on his victory in the presidential election” and also concede,
Mr Arhin wrote on his Facebook page.“The presidential candidate of the GCPP, Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey, has just called President Akufo-Addo to concede defeat and to congratulate him on his victory in the presidential election”.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission has promised to declare the results for the 2020 presidential election today, Wednesday. The Commission had earlier promised to declare the results within 24 hours after the end of the exercise.
At a press conference in Accra at dawn today,.the EC apologised for the delay.
The Deputy Chairman in-charge of Corporate Services, Dr. Eric Asare Bossman said” the results will be declared with or without the total figures from some two remaining regions. “
Meanwhile, the Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs. Jean Mensah had explained that the delay is due to “sudden rains and delayed voting in some constituencies.”
“The unexpected rains at some centres had interrupted the voting exercise on Election Day thus leading to some constituencies voting long after the voting deadline nationwide which subsequently affected counting and collation of votes.”
She added that “the rains had an impact on the EC’s plans, in the sense that our offices could not collate the results and forward them to their appropriate locations as planned.”
She further stated that the rain had made certain areas particularly, in the hinter lands, inaccessible to the Commission’s officials thus, making it difficult for results to be submitted to the EC’s regional offices.”
“This led to some substantial delays resulting in our receiving the results late, and this explains why the Commission was not able to declare the results as promised at 5pm Tuesday,” she explained.
Mrs Mensah gave the assurance that the Commission is working round the clock to ensure that the results are properly collated and due process followed before a declaration is made.
“As we speak the Commission has received 14 out of 16 regional results. We at the National Collation centre, we’ve had representatives of the political parties since yesterday. We had two reps for each party and they’re working with our own staff.. She said.