The Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Rashid Tanko-Computer, has condemned the Minority in Parliament over its demand for security to collate the results of the 2024 Ablekuma North parliamentary election.
He says the Minority’s act is tantamount to lawlessness and shouldn’t be countenanced by any lawful nation.
The Minority Members of Parliament on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, marched to the Police Headquarters to petition the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over the delay in the declaration of the Parliamentary Election Results for the Ablekuma North constituency by the Electoral Commission after the 2024 General Elections.
The Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh Dompreh, addressing journalists at the Police Headquarters called on the police to provide protection to the EC to enable the declaration of the results.
He further noted that “the absence of a declared MP for Ablekuma North constitute a serious violation of the constitutional right to representation guaranteed under the 1992 constitution.”
Reacting to the demand on Ghana Tonight on TV3 Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Dr. Tanko-Computer indicated that “they should be dismissed with the contempt they deserve.”
“Are we in a lawless state?” he quizzed, adding that “what they are asking for is complete lawlessness.”
According to him, “you don’t just go to IGP asking that the IGP provides security to perpetuate illegality on the good people of Ablekuma North. That is what they are trying to do.”
He explained that there is a standstill in the constituency resulting from what he terms as the EC’s failure to produce the pink sheets for some polling centres in the constituency.
“Ablekuma North we have a standstill and the standstill emanate from the 64 polling stations which the Electoral Commission which is supposed to have the original pink sheets, from these 64 polling stations indicated to the whole world that they don’t have the pink sheets. They lost them,” he stated.
Dr. Tanko-Computer further revealed that the NDC had disclosed at an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting that they do not have copies of those pink sheets as a result of the mayhem that occurred.
He said although the NPP also claimed they equally lost their pink sheets, they say they have scanned copies they can produce for the EC to complete the counting.
“And Electoral Commission now wants to use the scanned copies of NPP to declare the results. Who will accept this?” he quizzed.
We won’t accept any results declared for Ablekuma North parliamentary election – Tanko-Computer
