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The Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to have a rerun of the parliamentary election in 19 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency has been fiercely contested by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has called the action unwarranted and devoid of agreement.
“Our representatives were at the meeting, and I have to put it on record that there was no such agreement with the EC,” stated Haruna Mohammed, the deputy general secretary of the NPP, in an interview on Citi Eyewitness News after the EC’s July 2 news release.
“That the political parties did not agree is very evident in the release of the EC itself,” he stressed.
The EC clarified that the reason it decided to rerun the election in 19 of the 37 contested polling stations was because the presiding officers had not verified the scanned Pink Sheets used for collation. When party supporters apparently attacked the collation center, the actual pink sheets were destroyed.
But according to the NPP, the remaining results—especially those from three polling places—are sufficient to finish the tallying and select a winner.
“We don’t know what the EC is up to. The NPP is not going to give up on this particular fight,” Mohammed said.
“We don’t know of any elections. The EC must conclude the collation on the three polling stations—this is still outstanding, and that is clear for us” he added.
Instead of rerunning the vote in polling stations where party agents had previously approved the results, the NPP further demanded that security be deployed to safeguard the collation process.
Justin Kodua Frimpong, the party’s general secretary, is scheduled to address the nation on the subject and lay out the NPP’s official stance at a press conference scheduled for 10 a.m. on Thursday.
The Ghana Police Service would be available to provide security, and the EC has scheduled the rerun for Friday, July 11, 2025, promising the people a peaceful and transparent process.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
