The Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to rerun the parliamentary election in 19 polling places in the Ablekuma North Constituency has been fiercely contested by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has called the action unwarranted and without 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 continued.
The EC clarified that the reason it decided to rerun the election in 19 of the 37 contested polling places was because the presiding officers had not verified the scanned Pink Sheets used for collation. When party members apparently overran the collation centre, 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.
“What the EC is doing is unknown to us. Mohammed declared, “The NPP will not give up on this particular battle.”
“We don’t know of any elections,” he added. We are clear that the EC needs to complete the collation on the three voting places, which is currently pending.
Instead of rerunning the vote in polling places 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.
