Ablekuma North: Electoral Commission to Rerun Election in 19 Polling Stations on July 11

• The Electoral Commission will conduct a partial rerun of the Ablekuma North Constituency Parliamentary Election
• The rerun follows a dispute between the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party over the collation of selected results
• The NPP candidate in the race is Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, while Ewurabena Aubyn is the NDC candidate

The Electoral Commission will conduct a rerun of the Ablekuma North Constituency Parliamentary Election in 19 polling stations on July 11, 2025.

This follows a dispute over the authenticity of election results from the December 7, 2024, General Election.

The dispute stems from concerns raised by the National Democratic Congress over the use of scanned Pink Sheets from 37 polling stations, which the party claims were provided by the New Patriotic Party and lacked sufficient verification.

The NDC had insisted that the entire election be rerun in those 37 stations.

The commission, in a statement, however, said it would proceed to rerun the election in 19 out of the 37 Polling Stations.

"The Commission arrived at the decision to rerun the election in the underlistcd Polling Stations because the 19 scanned Polling Station results used for the collation, though approved by Agents of both Political Parties, were not verified by the Presiding Officers responsible for those Polling Stations."

"It is instructive to note that, the Commission was able to secure the Presiding Officers' verification and confirmation for 18 scanned Polling Station results - Agents of both parties also approved same. A rerun will therefore not be held in those Polling Stations."

The NPP parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma North is Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, while Ewurabena Aubyn is the NDC candidate.

The Ablekuma North Constituency was part of 12 parliamentary results contested due to some alleged discrepancies and procedural issues.

Eleven of the twelve outstanding parliamentary results have since been collated and winners declared, with only the Ablekuma North Constituency remaining without an MP.

Several attempts by the commission to collate the results have been marred by acts of vandalism.

This has led to a suspension of the re-collation process by the election management body.

Both parliamentary candidates, declared themselves winners of the elections.

The Electoral Commission initially declared victory for Aubyn, but later reversed the decision and announced Afriyie as the winner.

The Minority in parliament at a point petitioned the police, demanding security for the Electoral Commission to finalise results for the Ablekuma North Constituency elections.

NDC opposed swearing-in of three NPP MPs

YEN.com.gh reported that the NDC protested against the swearing-in of three NPP Members-elect of Parliament.

The party has cited legal and procedural irregularities as the basis for their opposition to their swearing-in on January 7.

The three MPs-elect under scrutiny at the time were Patrick Yaw Boamah of the Okaikwei Central constituency, Charles Forson of Tema Central, and Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah of Techiman South. They were elected after the re-collation of their election results.

The re-collation followed a directive from the High Court to the Electoral Commission to re-collate the results for these constituencies.

Source: YEN.com.gh