NPP's Charles Forson And Adjei-Mensah Korsah Retain Seats, EC Suspends Ablekuma North Collation

NPP's Charles Forson And Adjei-Mensah Korsah Retain Seats, EC Suspends Ablekuma North Collation

  • Charles Forson has been declared the winner of the Tema Central parliamentary elections over NDC's Ebi Bright
  • Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah also retained in Techiman South, defeating the NDC's Christopher Bayere Basongti
  • The Electoral Commission had also suspended the collation of the Ablekuma North results over authentication issues

The New Patriotic Party has secured significant victories after the Electoral Commission's (EC) collation exercise on Sunday, January 5, 2025.

NPP, NDC, Charles Forson, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, The EC, 2024 elections
The NPP's Charles Forson and Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah secure victories after the EC collates the remaining results. Photo source: @hon_charlesforson and @ martinkorsah
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The party's parliamentary candidates, Charles Forson and Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, were declared winners of the Tema Central and Techiman South parliamentary elections.

Charles Forson wins Tema Central seat

In the Tema Central elections, Charles Forson secured 18,870 votes in a keenly contested election to defeat the National Democratic Congress' parliamentary candidate, Ebi Bright, who secured 18,815 votes.

Independent candidate, Frederick Ani Adjei secured 209 votes from the 38, 038 total votes collated.

Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah retains Techiman South seat

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In the Techiman South Constituency elections, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah defeated the National Democratic Congress candidate, Christopher Bayere Basongti, to retain his seat.

The incumbent MP secured 46,663 votes, while his main challenger, Christopher Bayere Basongti, polled 43,429 votes.

He was initially declared the winner of the December 7 elections before the High Court ordered the results from the Techiman South and other constituencies, Okaikwei Central, Tema Central, and Ablekuma North, to be collated at the Electoral Commission's (EC) regional office in Accra on Sunday, January 5, 2025.

The court made the decision to ensure transparency and the completion of outstanding collation processes after the New Patriotic Party's parliamentary candidates filed mandamus applications.

Check out the results below:

EC suspends collation of results in Ablekuma North

Meanwhile, the EC suspended collating the results from the Ablekuma North parliamentary elections in the Greater Accra Region over issues about the authentication of 20 out of the 62 outstanding polling station results.

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The constituency's electoral returning officer, Vincent Obeng, confirmed that the process had been halted because the EC needed to verify the pink sheets before declaring the winner.

He added that the disruption of the process and destruction of some pink sheets at the collation centre on the night of the election, December 7, made it difficult to continue with the results collation.

As a result, the Electoral Commission, the political parties, and their parliamentary candidates do not have all the pink sheets for the collation process.

Obeng assured all parties that he would analyse the pink sheets and resume the collation process within 24 hours.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) withdrew from the collation process for the Ablekuma North constituency, citing alleged irregularities by the Electoral Commission (EC).

The NDC's representatives abandoned the results collation on the Deputy Director of Elections and IT, Dr Rashid Tanko Computer, who disputed the legality of the process.

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Mahama backs Alban Bagbin for speaker role

In another story reported by YEN.com.gh, John Dramani Mahama declared his support for Alban Bagbin's nomination as speaker of the ninth parliament on Sunday, January 5, 2025.

In a press statement shared by his special aide Felix Ofosu Kwakye, the President-elect urged the NDC parliamentarians to push for Alban Bagbin to land a successive speakership role.

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