Deputy Chairman in charge of Corporate Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr. Bossman Asare has dismissed calls for a re-run of the Ablekuma North parliamentary election, given the predicaments associated with the election.
Six months after the 2024 elections, constituents of Ablekuma North are yet to be presented in Parliament because results of three polling stations have still not been declared by the Returning Officer.
Results for the three polling stations are said to have been lost as the EC itself has no copies of the results.
Several re-collation attempts by the EC have proved futile because both NPP and NDC party supporters have disrupted the re-collation exercise.
The Electoral Commissioner has also petitioned the Ghana Police Service, seeking intense security measures for a declaration of the results.
This has caused suggestions from some political quarters that a re-run of the Ablekuma North parliamentary elections could solve the stalemate.
Appearing before Parliament on Thursday, June 19, Dr. Bossman Asare said a re-organization of the Ablekuma North elections would hurt the country’s democracy.
He argued that considering the processes that have been achieved so far, it won’t be advisable to organize a re-run of the Ablekuma North elections.
Dr. Bossman Asare noted that the processes must be allowed to continue to bring finality to the matter.
“The Commission strongly believes that for the processes that have gone on so far, if we go to the good people of this country that we are abolishing everything, it will not be good for our democracy so let’s allow the processes to continue,” he said on the floor of the House.
