Salam Mustapha, the National Youth Organiser of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has disclosed that his party has filed an interlocutory injunction to prevent the Electoral Commission from proceeding with the rerun of 19 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency.
After months of protracted disagreement over the results of 62 polling stations in the constituency during the 2024 December elections, the polling stations has been narrowed down to 19 after the major stakeholders reached a compromise.
The EC has said these 19 polling stations are going to be rerun before the results can be declared.
Reacting to the development, Mustapha, whose party, the NPP, has already described the decision as “unjust”, indicated that the EC did not arrive at any consensus with the parties before taking such a decision.
He believes the decision is a dangerous precedent being set by the election management body which can potentially derail the confidence in Ghana’s electoral system.
“We have filed an interlocutory injunction in court; it cannot be; the EC doesn’t have the power to decide to rerun elections in selected polling stations. If we allow this to go, it sets a dangerous precedent in our electoral system.
“That when a party realises that it is losing an election, it can come and destroy everything and press for a rerun in polling stations it feels and chooses. We can’t accept this; this is not democracy. The EC should go to court to get the court to order a rerun,” he said on Channel One TV Sunday, July 6, 2025.
The December 7, 2024 elections was contested by Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as its parliamentary candidate, while Ewurabena Aubynn stood on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
But, the constituency still doesn’t have a Member of Parliament after for six months due to a dispute over the collation of results from some polling stations. This has prolonged representation for the constituents in Parliament.
Preliminary results released by the Electoral Commission (EC) showed Nana Akua narrowly winning the seat with 34,613 votes, against Aubynn’s 34,199 — a margin of 414 votes.
The NDC’s Ewurabena Aubynn rejected the results, claiming she was the legitimate winner. She further alleged electoral irregularities, including the fabrication of pink sheets and collusion between EC officials and the NPP.
On January 17, the collation process was suspended after alleged acts of vandalism at the EC’s Greater Accra office, prompting the NDC to stage a protest vigil in demand for transparency.
The alleged vandalism linked to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) resulted in the ransacking of the collation centre at the Greater Accra Regional Office of the Electoral Commission.
The Electoral Commission was scheduled to resume the collation of parliamentary election results for the Ablekuma North constituency on Friday, January 17, 2025.
However, the process was interrupted when more than 40 individuals stormed the venue, demanding that everyone vacate the premises and vandalise property, including louvre blades and doors.
The controversy intensified after a fire in December 2024 destroyed ballot materials stored overnight at a facility in Kwashieman, raising further concerns over the integrity of the electoral process.
On June 4, the Minority Caucus formally petitioned the Ghana Police Service to provide adequate security to facilitate a safe and transparent re-collation process.
During a parliamentary briefing on June 19, the Electoral Commission explained that the delay in completing the collation of results stemmed from the absence of legal advice from the Attorney General’s Department. The Commission also called on Parliament to assist in securing police protection for EC officials, party agents, and stakeholders during the process.
On July 2, 2025, the EC announced a rerun in 19 out of the 281 polling stations in the constituency, citing issues with unverified scanned pink sheets as the basis for its decision.
While the NDC welcomed the rerun and expressed confidence in Ewurabena Aubynn’s chances, the NPP strongly condemned the move, describing it as overreach by the EC and claiming it lacked legal precedent.
