Kpakpo Samoa Addo is counsel for Tema Central NDC 2024 parliamentary candidate, Ebi Bright
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Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, counsel for the NDC’s 2024 Tema Central parliamentary candidate, Ebi Bright, has justified the legal redress being sought by his client at the Supreme Court.

He says the election was marred with irregularities which needed to be addressed, making the declaration of Charles Forson, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary candidate, illegitimate.

As part of Madam Bright’s plea, she is requesting the Supreme Court to either nullify the election results or order a re-run in the constituency.

She avers the Electoral Commission (EC) wrongly announced Forson as the elected Member of Parliament, citing alleged irregularities that may have influenced the final results.

Ebi Bright further alleges that disruptions occurred during the collation process at the Chemu SHS centre, where she claims some NPP polling agents interfered, affecting the transparency of the final count.

She believes these actions compromised the fairness of the election and breached electoral regulations.

Her petition questions the validity of Forson’s declaration as MP-elect, arguing that procedural lapses may have violated constitutional and electoral guidelines.

In his comments on the matter, Mr. Samoa Addo indicated that the “cardinal principles” for an election petition, is whether the issues being raised by a petitioner can change the outcome of the polls, where in the matter of the Tema Central results, the petitioner’s lawyer is contending can change the outcome.

He explains on Ghana Tonight on TV3 Monday, January 27, 2025, that Forson won the polls with 55 votes whilst three polling station results are still outstanding.

According to him, the addition of the three remaining polling stations have the tendency of changing the outcome of the results and cannot be overlooked.

“One of the cardinal principles of dealing with election petitions is whether the issues you raised, materially, can change the outcome of the election and where you have a situation where the race was not won by 5,000, 10,000 or 15,000 votes, so that you’ll say the petitioner is simply making a lot of noise but we are talking about 55 votes, then clearly, the contester cannot sit down when the issue balls down to 3 polling stations whose results can easily overturn the outcome of the election,” he stated.

Re-collation of results: NPP’s Charles Forson defeats NDC’s Ebi Bright in Tema Central