{"id":203981,"date":"2016-04-04T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=203981"},"modified":"2016-04-04T06:05:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:05:49","slug":"dont-declare-uncertified-results-ec-warns-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/04\/dont-declare-uncertified-results-ec-warns-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t \u00a0declare uncertified results \u2013 EC warns media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Electoral Commission has cautioned media houses in the country against declaring results that have not been certified during the <span data-term=\"goog_784366981\">November 7<\/span>\u00a0general elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, a Deputy Chair of the EC, Georginal Opoku Amankwaa, said the media must do this in order to avoid a situation where Ghanaians will doubt the final results that will be certified by the commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt may be that you get access to some results and after calculating, it comes out that the Electoral Commission, which\u00a0has access to all the results has something different results from yours; then people who might have heard you already would think that the figures might have been doctored by the Electoral Commission,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;b1aIbq3tLdFHXVD817FRNnN5uHMhewPw&#8221;]\u201cWe are therefore calling on the media not to declare the election results before the Electoral Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u2019s general elections comes off on\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_784366982\">November 7,<\/span> and it is the expectation\u00a0of Ghanaians that the whole process would\u00a0be conducted without any violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In previous elections, some media houses were\u00a0quick to announce what they called provisional results, even before the EC, announces the certified results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In some cases, some political parties have also gone out of their way to declare themselves winners before the official results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such situations often heightens tension and has the propensity to destabilize the country&#8217;s peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission has cautioned media houses in the country against declaring results that have not been certified during the November 7\u00a0general elections. 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