Ghanas domestic election observer group, the Coalition of Domestic election Observers (CODEO), has welcomed the Supreme Court ruling on the provision of collation sheets to all aspirants.

The Supreme Court further directed the commission to create a portion on the sheet where both the agents of the aspirants and the presiding officer will sign, to authenticate the document.

The National Coordinator of CODEO, Albert Arhin said the ruling was good for Ghana’s democracy in an interview with Citi FM.

“It is something we initially took part and were part of that decision and so now it has come to fruition, I think we all should be happy and the parties themselves should also be happy because it is going to lay bare everything – the parliamentary, the presidential,” Mr Arhin said.

Background

The 2012 presidential election was challenged by the NPP in 2013 after the party claimed that a list of unsigned collation sheets constituted an infraction of the law.

The Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) at the time, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan subsequently admitted that some 371 unsigned sheets were indeed infractions.