Hackers have targeted the website of the Ghana’s electoral commission, taking it offline a day after presidential polls in the West African nation.
The Ghana Electoral Commission says it “deplores the attempt to hack” its website.
On its Twitter account is said that a screen grab purporting to show that opposition candidate opposition leader Nana Akufo Addo was leading against incumbent President John Mahama was a fake.
It is not clear if the screen grab actually appeared on its website, which is currently failing to load.
THIS IS FAKE!!!! THIS IS FAKE!!!! THIS IS NOT FROM THE EC. DISREGARD COMPLETELY!!!! @GhanaDecides @Citi973 @Joy997FM @newsontv3 pic.twitter.com/LMGktQwG0p
— Electoral Commission (@ECGhanaOfficial) December 8, 2016
Official results are expected before Saturday evening – 72 hours after polls closed.
source: BBC News
Live reporting by: Dickens Olewe, Lucy Fleming and Lamine Konkobo