Ghana oppn alleges rigging over delayed election results

Bloomberg

Ghanaian opposition leader John Mahama accused the ruling party of using the military to alter the results of the election. The government denied the allegation.
Claims of election rigging are unusual in Ghana, Africa’s top gold producer and one of the continent’s most stable democracies. In the last vote in 2016, Mahama conceded defeat to President Nana Akufo-Addo before a final tally was announced. Ghana’s electoral commission said it’s delayed the release of official results to later on Wednesday as it sought to allay fears that “anything untoward is happening.”
An unofficial count by Accra-based broadcaster Joy FM showed Akufo-Addo ahead in the presidential race with 51.6% of the vote, compared with 47.1% for Mahama, with ballots from 83% of constituencies counted. Mahama said Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party used the army to change the results of the parliamentary vote in the party’s favour. “You cannot use the military to overturn some of the results in constituencies that we have won,” Mahama said in remarks broadcast by Joy FM radio.