Security Analyst Colonel Festus Aboagye has attributed the protests being recorded across the country to the lack of transparency on the part of the Electoral Commission (EC).

According to him, the EC is obliged to engage the aggrieved parties as to the basis of the results announced. This, he believes, would help to quell the agitations surrounding the declaration of the final results.

“A lot of the obligation is on the part of the EC to engage the political parties, share with them the basis for the figured announced.

“Discuss with them where there might be discrepancies, omissions, additions and let them come to a consensus that the EC figures are indeed credible,” he said.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story Friday, Mr. Aboagye also called for restraint on the part of all major stakeholders.

He noted that leaders of political parties and other stakeholders such as the Council of State, Peace Council, and other Religious bodies should intervene in order to calm agitated supporters.

Following the EC Chairperson's declaration of the results in favour of NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, violent acts have been recorded in some parts of the country.

At Techiman South constituency in the Bono East Region, two persons are said to have sustained gunshot wounds as a result of a shooting incident which erupted when supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) prevented the presiding officer from declaring the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah the winner.

Furthermore, in Banda, some supporters of the NPP are asking the EC to overturn the declaration in favour of NDC parliamentary candidate Ahmed Ibrahim.

According to them, the results declared by the Commission is 'fraudulent and flawed'.

For that matter, Col. Aboagye believes that an engagement between the Electoral Commission and the stakeholders will go a long way to resolve the various issues.