NDC Drags The EC To Court Over Plans To Re-Collate Results For 5 Constituencies

• The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dragged the Electoral Commission to court over plans to re-collate the election results in five constituencies
• According to the NDC, the EC's mandate expired after it collated and declared the results in favour of its candidates
• The constituencies are Ablekuma North, Dome Kwabenya, Obuasi East, Okaikwei Central and Tema Central

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has filed for an injunction against the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to re-collate and re-declare the parliamentary results of five constituencies.

The constituencies are Ablekuma North, Dome Kwabenya, Obuasi East, Okaikwei Central and Tema Central.

According to the NDC, the EC does not have the authority to undertake such an exercise.

The legal action follows the EC's decision to declare the aforementioned constituency’s collations and declaration of results invalid, null, and void.

According to the EC, electoral officers in those areas were harassed and assaulted, and supporters of the NDC thronged collation centres, demanding that electoral officers declare their preferred candidate.

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The EC said that to ensure the integrity of the electoral outcomes in those areas, it would re-collate and redeclare the results.

However, the NDC and five other applicants have filed an application seeking a declaration that the EC’s mandate expired after it declared the results for the constituencies with the NDC candidates as winners in the first collation process.

It argued that, as a result, the court should prohibit the EC from re-collating, recounting, or redeclaring the results.

It is also seeking a declaration that under Article 99 of the 1992 constitution and section 16 of PNDCL 284, the High Court of Ghana has the exclusive original jurisdiction to invalidate parliamentary election results, not the EC.

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This followed a disagreement between the NPP and NDC after the NPP's parliamentary candidate, Frank Annor-Dompreh, lost his seat to the NDC contender.

Following allegations of discrepancies, the collation was moved to the Police academy.

Proofread by Samuel Gitonga, Copy Editor at YEN.com.gh

Source: YEN.com.gh