Ablekuma North Election Impasse: NPP Minority Resists Calls for Rerun
Accra, Ghana - 04 June, 2025 - The Minority in Ghana's Parliament is strongly resisting calls for a fresh election in Ablekuma North, where the parliamentary seat remains vacant due to ongoing disputes over the electoral process, which have resulted in significant delays and left the constituency without representation in the 9th Parliament.
The constituency's protracted election saga has sparked widespread concern, with the Electoral Commission (EC) citing inadequate security as the primary reason for the delay in concluding the collation of results.
In a bid to pressure the Ghana Police Service to take action, Members of Parliament from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) staged a protest on Wednesday, marching from Parliament House to the Police Headquarters in Accra. The MPs demanded that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) deploy adequate security personnel to the EC's designated collation center to facilitate the peaceful conclusion and declaration of the Ablekuma North results.
Reading a petition on behalf of the Minority, Chief Whip Frank Annoh-Dompreh emphasized that the continuous disfranchisement of the people of Ablekuma North represents a denial of their constitutional right to representation.
He called on the Police to take immediate action to ensure an enabling environment for the conclusion of the election process.
"Our demands are still simple and straightforward. The continuous disfranchisement of the people of Ablekuma North represents not only a denial of their constitutional right to representation but also an affront to the democratic principles in the 1992 Constitution."
''Take immediate steps without any further delay to deploy adequate security personnel to the Electoral Commission at its designated collation centre, and ensure an enabling environment for the peaceful and lawful conclusion and declaration of the Ablekuma North results,'' he added.
The NPP's Ablekuma North candidate, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, who participated in the protest, claimed she rightfully won the election and rejected rerun calls as unfounded and driven by politics, citing evidence like pink sheets and jointly signed collation results as proof of her victory.
“If you were the one who won, would you say they should rerun? We know the King Solomon issue. We won the election and so there isn’t going to be any rerun. We have the pink sheets, we have every evidence. We have collated with their (NDC) agent six times, and this is where we are. So if you were the one who won, would you suggest there should be a rerun?”
Source: Lead News Online
