The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has claimed the Electoral Commission (EC) has failed to respond to its letters concerning the ongoing electoral dispute in the Ablekuma North constituency.
The party is demanding a re-run of parliamentary elections in 62 polling stations within the constituency, insisting that the results collated so far are not credible and must be addressed through a transparent process.
This follows recent calls by the IGP urging the EC to present a clear roadmap for concluding the long-delayed collation of results in the area. In response, the NDC claims the EC is not adequately prepared and is acting unlawfully by attempting to use scanned pink sheets instead of the original documents for collation.
Speaking on Channel One Newsroom with Umaru Sanda Amadu, Mahdi Gibril, Deputy Director of Elections for the NDC, stated that the party has repeatedly reached out to the EC for clarification but has received no response.
He added that the party met the EC on March 13, 2025, to raise concerns about the use of scanned documents.
He said follow-up letters were sent on April 18 and April 30, but the EC reportedly failed to respond.
“Up till date, we’re waiting for a response from the EC. They are not even responding to us, because they know that what they’re doing is illegal. We met them on March 13, 2025. We told them we don’t believe in the documents they used, and if they can provide reasons why we should accept that they used scanned documents.
He added, “On April 18, 2025, we wrote to EC again to remind them of the issue. They didn’t respond, and on April 30, we wrote to them again, but they didn’t respond. Until we heard that they told the police that they are ready to collate the results. The EC is misinforming the IGP, especially Dr. Bossman Asare, Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Asare, and Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairman of Operations at EC.”
The NDC maintains that a re-run is the only acceptable solution in polling stations where the EC does not have original pink sheets.
“What are they going to use to collate the results? They don’t have pink sheets. We will only accept a re-run in polling stations where the EC doesn’t have pink sheets,” he said.
The Electoral Commission is yet to publicly respond to the NDC’s latest allegations.
Efforts to finalise the collation in January 2025 were disrupted after unauthenticated pink sheets surfaced and the collation centre was overrun, raising serious security concerns.
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