The Electoral Commission in the Ashanti Region says all ballots cast and machinery deployed for the Council of State election were destroyed in Tuesday’s chaos.
According to EC, though counting started, the ballots counted were negligible.
Regional Director, Francis Osei Nsiah, says the Commission has no document to help them in declaring the results of yesterday’s election.
“Yesterday, we brought nothing back. Everything that we took to the centre was destroyed by the thugs, nothing came back from the centre”, he said.
Mr Osei Nsiah added, “We finished the process, we did the sorting, allocated the ballots to the candidates and as we were counting the first candidate when it truncated. We cannot determine the votes of the first candidate we had counted.”
He says a decision on the way forward will be communicated subsequently.
“We have submitted our report to the commission so we are waiting for the commission to decide the way forward”, Mr Osei Nsiah emphasized.
The Council of State Election in the Ashanti Region ended abruptly after some thugs alleged to be linked to the ruling National Democratic Congress disrupted the process, tearing apart ballot papers.
The heavily built men overpowered police officers to gain access to the Electoral Commission’s table, where the ballots were to be counted.
It is alleged the NDC supporters were not happy with the ballot sorting which was believed to have gone in favour of an NPP member.
One of the three officers had some cuts on the face but was in stable condition after being treated by the police.
“Some of the thugs came here to attack some of the security personnel. They beat them and they had to be taken to the hospital.
“One of them says they hit his head against the wall so we had to rush him to the hospital for a scan to determine the impact. Per the report the guy is safe,” he said.
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