Accra, Ghana - The Christian Council of Ghana on Tuesday commended the Electoral Commission and all Ghanaians as well as development partners for their contributions towards a peaceful general election.
"Our observers reported a peaceful conduct of the election in most of the polling stations. It is important to also state that some stations did not have security, nevertheless, the process was smooth with no incidence of violence".
Rev Dr Fred Deegbe, General Secretary of the Council in a statement signed to the GNA asked Ghanaians to wait for the declaration of the results by the EC adding, “we wish to appeal to the political parties to refrain from holding press conferences on unauthenticated results while issuing threats to the electoral commission".
He mentioned some activities undertaken by the council to promote peaceful elections as a week-long fasting and prayer session, production of video clip on peace, training of 300 observers, and a presidential forum among others.
Dr Deegbe also acknowledged the contributions of other civil society organization in drumming hope the message of a peaceful.
The council said although the EC and NCCE embarked on voter education, there were few problems associated with voter registration, exhibition, cleaning of register, transfer and proxy arrangement were encountered. “Our observers noticed a few irregularities such as unsealed ballot boxes, and giving both the presidential and the parliamentary ballot papers at the same time. There were instances where presiding
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