The controversial logo of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) which generated hue and cry in the country after it was unveiled in 2016, has been discarded, and the old one restored with immediate effect.

“With effect from today the 4th of December 2018, the original logo of the Electoral Commission which bears the coat of arms and has a ballot box showing the hand casting its vote has been restored,” the a memo from the new chair of the EC,” Ms. Jean Mensa stated.

It has thus directed that the new logo, which it described as “the most recent logo,” is removed from all the buildings and properties of the EC and that the one bearing what it termed “original logo” will be provided.

Again, the Commission has directed that all communications from the EC “must from today be made on the letterhead bearing the original logo of the Commission”.

No reasons were given for this latest decision by the Jean Mensa-led Commission to replace the new logo that was spearheaded by the former EC Chair Charlotte Osei as part of the rebranding of the Commission in 2016.

But the Commission said its core values, which were listed as integrity, fairness and accountability “have from today also been restored”, a statement that suggests the Charlotte Osei-led Commission never had those values.

Below is the memo: