The Ablekuma North Constituency remains a shadow of itself as the parliamentary election results are yet to be declared, nearly seven months after the December 2024 polls leaving the area without a representative in Ghana’s 9th Parliament.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has raised allegations of electoral malpractice against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the collation of election results took a contentious turn.
Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the NDC, Dr. Rashid Tanko-Computer says the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is allegedly attempting to use fake and scanned copies of election results to woo the Electoral Commission ( EC) to declare the election results.
Dr. Tanko-Computer, who is also the CEO of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, (GIFEC), further demanded the arrest of the NPP members allegedly involved in rigging the results.
The Minority caucus in Parliament on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, walked from Parliament to the CID Police headquarters in respect of the prolonged collation and declaration of the results.
The Caucus petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), demanding maximum security to be provided to enable the EC collate and declare the outcome of the Ablekuma North parliamentary results.
But, the NDC will not take any of that. Speaking to host of the current affairs show- ‘Hot Edition’ on 3FM 92.7, Dr. Tanko-Computer demanded a re-run of the elections for the 62 polling stations.
When asked by the host “what’s going to be the next step for you?” Dr. Tanko Computer said: “Our next step is that they must make sure that we go back and have elections for the 62 polling stations. The Electoral Commission cannot declare it without going through the right process.
“The process is that they needed to bring their pink sheets, they are supposed to have the original pink sheets, we the political parties are supposed to have carbon copies, not scanned copies.
“Who deals with scanned copies? . Under CI 127, there is nothing like scanned copies. It is talking about carbon copies given to political parties and they keep the original and at our Inter- Party Advisory Committee ( IPAC) meeting, the EC told us that they have lost all the original copies and we the political parties also indicated we lost it because of the violence that happened on that day.”
“Yet NPP will go and sit at their party office and cook figures, scanned them and bring them and EC is trying to rely on those scanned copies to declare. We will prevent it, we are not going to accept it,” he insisted.
By Richard Bright Addo|3FM
