As Ghanaians prepare to vote in the nation’s ninth presidential and parliamentary elections, Yiaga Africa has deployed an election study mission to observe the elections following the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) accreditation.
The election will be held tomorrow, 7 December, 2024.
Yiaga Africa is undertaking this mission to understudy and document good practices on election result management, voting rights, electoral technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and issue-based politics.
The mission hopes to contribute to the body of knowledge on elections by documenting comparative lessons in the Ghanaian elections.
This marks Yiaga Africa’s fourth election study mission under its Transforming Electoral Governance in Africa (TEGA) initiative, which enhances electoral governance through evidence-based learning, documentation, and advocacy.
The 12-person delegation, led by Dr Aisha Abdullahi (former African Union Commissioner of Political Affairs), includes legislators, academics, civil society leaders, legal experts and media practitioners from Africa.
They are: Senator Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli, Chairman, Nigerian Senate Committee on INEC and Electoral Matters, Hon Prince Adebayo Balogun, Chairman, Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters, Dr Hussaini Abdu, Yiaga Africa Board Chair and Country Director, CARE International, Nigeria, Barr Afam Osigwe SAN, President, Nigerian Bar Association Bonolo Magkale, Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Mr Majeed Bakare – Premium Times Newspaper, Ijeoma Osamor – Broadcaster and TV anchor, African Independent Television (AIT), Samson Itodo, Executive Director, Yiaga Africa, Olusegun Ogundare, African Head, Operations and Research, Ibrahim Farouk, Africa Programme Coordinator and Gifty Quarshie – Programme Assistant.
The mission will use diverse observation tools to observe pre-election, during and post-election activities.
Yiaga Africa said the mission would interface with key election stakeholders and engage with domestic and international election observer missions as part of its comprehensive observation/study mission methodology.
“After the elections, a report will be issued to share the mission’s findings,” Yiaga Africa said.
