His woes started before and after the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n
As part of measures to ensure a more credible and transparent election, in 2012, the Electoral Commission among other things, \u00a0introduced a biometric voter registration and identification system.<\/p>\n
The move was highly commended by the various political parties in the country.<\/p>\n
The EC also issued the no-verification-no-vote directive.<\/p>\n
As part of the directive, any voter who could not be identified by the biometric device was not to be allowed to vote.<\/p>\n The number of constituencies in the country were also increased from 230 to 275 amidst controversies.<\/p>\n 2012 election and aftermath<\/strong><\/p>\n On election day, December 7 2012, the biometric devices could not authenticate some people because some had broken down and others could not work due to lack of power.<\/p>\n These and other reasons forced the election\u00a0to enter day two\u00a0because a lot of people had not voted as at the close of polls on December 7.<\/p>\n Election petition<\/strong><\/p>\n Though the NPP rejected the outcome of the results claiming there were\u00a0widespread\u00a0irregularities recorded in some centres, Dr. Afari Gyan went ahead to declare John Dramani Mahama as the president-elect.<\/p>\n The NPP challenged the results at the Supreme Court alleging that some of the results were also rigged to favour NDC\u2019s presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n However, the Supreme Court after eight months affirmed President Mahama as the winner of the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n District Assembly Election<\/strong><\/p>\n In February this year, the Supreme Court canceled the District Assembly and Unit Committee elections which was scheduled to take place on March 3, 2015.<\/p>\n An aspiring assembly man, Benjamin Eyi Mensah dragged the EC to court after he was denied the opportunity to contest in the elections.<\/p>\n He said he was denied the opportunity despite meeting all conditions to contest but the EC closed nominations before the maturation of the Constitutional Instrument (CI) 85.<\/p>\n The Justice William Atuguba-led panel of Judges ruled in favour of the fisherman and declared the election \u201cunconstitutional.<\/p>\n The EC later sent to Parliament, a new legislation to enable it re-organize the District Assembly Elections.<\/p>\n The law meant to regulate the conduct of the election, Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 89, matured on June 10, 2015.<\/p>\n Voter registration exercise suspended<\/strong><\/p>\n The Electoral Commission (EC) on May 19 suspended an ongoing voter registration exercise after stakeholders and political parties kicked against the exercise.<\/p>\n The political parties notably, NPP, NDC and PNC argued that the offends Public Elections Regulation 2012 C.I. 72 which states clearly how registration of eligible voters must be done.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana![\"Dr.](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1.1965408.jpg\")
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