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Claim: The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, in a media interview, claimed the 2024 general election is the second time Ghana is implementing constituency collation of parliamentary results, where returning officers announce results.
Verdict: False
Explanation
Ghana’s PUBLIC ELECTIONS REGULATIONS (2016) details the duties of a returning officer, which includes collating and announcing parliamentary results at the constituency level. These regulations governed the conduct of the 2016 elections. Also, a report by the Coalition Of Domestic Elections Observers – CODEO, the most significant election group in Ghana, proved that elections were collated at the constituency level as far back as the election in 2016.
Therefore, the claim by Nigeria’s INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, is false.
